Miguel Seabra Lopes

History

He studied with Dušan Makavejev, Jos Stelling, Christian Hossner, Ursula Meyer, Atelier MTK. He attended the Film School, among others. He was a member of the Teatro do Vestido group. He was a member of the production company AS-Produções. He worked in film as an assistant director, producer, screenwriter, editor, director. He also worked in television and advertising. His work was exhibited in Locarno, Marseilles, Angers, Rotterdam, Uppsala, Festival of Rio, etc, ne awarded at IndieLisboa, DocLisboa, Tabor, Recife Window, Victoria, Marilia, etc. He teaches History of Cinema and Design in Script Free Course, AIC (RJ).

Movies

The Fever
The Fever
Screenplay
Justino, a 45-year-old member of the indigenous Desana people, is a security guard at the Manaus harbor. As his daughter prepares to soon depart to Brasília, Justino comes down with a mysterious fever.
In a Foreign Country
In a Foreign Country
Director
Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.
Confident
Confident
Director
If I didn’t blossom, if I remained unbloomed, it’s because my roots were poisoned. I know it's false, an induced error, but... this is me.
Maybe Desert Perhaps Universe
Maybe Desert Perhaps Universe
Sound
The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes psychiatric, psychological, medical, therapeutic and social care. The 32 men who inhabit the unit were considered exempt from punishment by the court. They feel time going by. Slowly. The film settles in this individual time.
Maybe Desert Perhaps Universe
Maybe Desert Perhaps Universe
Director of Photography
The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes psychiatric, psychological, medical, therapeutic and social care. The 32 men who inhabit the unit were considered exempt from punishment by the court. They feel time going by. Slowly. The film settles in this individual time.
Maybe Desert Perhaps Universe
Maybe Desert Perhaps Universe
Director
The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes psychiatric, psychological, medical, therapeutic and social care. The 32 men who inhabit the unit were considered exempt from punishment by the court. They feel time going by. Slowly. The film settles in this individual time.
October Is Over
October Is Over
Producer
Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.
October Is Over
October Is Over
Screenplay
Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.
October Is Over
October Is Over
Director
Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.
October Is Over
October Is Over
Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.
The King
The King
A Portuguese king who disappeared in the desert of Morocco in the sixteenth century comes forward. Under the threat of having to return to Portugal in the XXI century, Dom Sebastian reveals his whereabouts and the secrets of the kingdom he built over all these years in faraway Ilha de Lençóis in Northeastern Brazil.
Fire
Fire
Editor
“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Fire
Fire
Director
“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Lisbon-Province
Lisbon-Province
Assistant Director
A nurse takes care of a patient in her house. Maria do Céu has been a nurse for more than forty years, working at an old Hospital in Lisbon. She was sixteen, when she arrived to Lisbon, coming from a small village in Alentejo. At the Hospital, she reads the file of an old patient who was also her friend. The file is then closed. Maria do Céu returns to her village, where she sings at the people’s house choir.
Poor George
Poor George
Miguel
One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.
A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena
A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena
The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's assistant who walks by his side when he is run over in a perhaps enigmatic way.