Pedro Paiva
Joao Maria Gusmao b. 1979, Pedro Paiva b. 1977. Live and work in Lisbon. The Portuguese artists Joao Maria Gusmao and Pedro Paiva have collaborated since 2001 on creating objects, installations and 16mm and 35mm short films. The duo describe their overall project as a kind of “recreational metaphysics,” a genre that to a certain extent they themselves have re-invented following the Portuguese poet Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa) on his layered aesthetical modern experiment on materialism. The short films depict staged episodes and sequences of pseudo-scientific experiments with both poetical and comical consequences. In recent years Gusmao and Paiva’s production has centered on the idea of movement and duration, both within the cinematographic vocabulary, with references to early film pioneers as Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey, and through the artists’ own practical experiments and conceptual invention.
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Films (46)
A Moeda-Viva
2024 · Director, Editor
Sleeping Flamingo
2018 · Director
Salto no Vazio
2017 · Cinematography
Parce que je t'aime
2016 · Gaffer
Chopping Fruits and Vegetables
2016 · Director
Sleeping in a Bullet Train
2015 · Director
Pipe
2014 · Director
Motorcycle, Bike and Human Dots
2014 · Director
Glossolalia
2014 · Director
Papagaio (Djambi)
2014 · Director
Onça Geométrica
2013 · Director
Three Albinos Telling Jokes by the Fireplace
2013 · Director
Proboscis
2013 · Director
Triangles and Squares
2013 · Director
Those Animals That, at a Distance, Resemble Flies
2012 · Director
Placing the Fisheye
2012 · Director
Water mill
2012 · Director
Wheels
2011 · Director
Turtle
2011 · Director
Donkey
2011 · Director
Under a car
2011 · Director
Benguelino Casting a Spell on the Camera
2011 · Director
Wave
2011 · Director
Solar, the Blindman Eating a Papaya
2011 · Director
Dream of a Ray Fish
2011 · Director
Bread, Tea and Bao Game
2011 · Director
The Horse of the Prophet
2011 · Director
Getting into bed
2011 · Director
Cowfish
2011 · Director
O Último Voo do Flamingo
2010 · Electrician
Spaghetti Tornado
2010 · Director
Cassowary
2010 · Director
Pot Smaller than Pot
2010 · Director
The Soup
2009 · Director
Hand Smaller than Hand
2009 · Director
3 Sóis
2009 · Director
Ventriloquismo
2009 · Director
A Coluna de Colombo
2009 · Director
Tarciso’s Analogy
2009 · Director
Hairy Stone
2009 · Director
Fruit Polyhedron
2009 · Director
Meteoritica
2008 · Director
Fried Egg
2008 · Director
The Initiate
2008 · Director
The Human Torch
2007 · Director
Eye Eclipse
2007 · Director
Séries (0)
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