Patrick Mendes
Birth : , Toulouse, France
Director
Mata-Ratos, a legendary Portuguese punk band, have played in football stadiums, sports halls, bars, performance venues, cultural associations, nightclubs, bandstands, parties and garages. They now celebrate their fortieth anniversary and director Patrick Mendes joins them once again as they tour the country. We find them at Fundão, within the sweaty walls of Octógono, in a concert full of distortion, beer and mosh pits.
Director
Essay House of Fun, is a journey to create the dramatic reading of the feature script HOUSE OF FUN, from the gender transition in the context of the 1990s, and the challenges of producing an audiovisual work in a short space-time.
Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after day… And they are not the only ones.
First Assistant Director
Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after day… And they are not the only ones.
Producer
Somewhere in an unspecified time, Patrick Mendes presents an initiation ritual in a community at the ends of the earth.
Writer
Somewhere in an unspecified time, Patrick Mendes presents an initiation ritual in a community at the ends of the earth.
Director
Somewhere in an unspecified time, Patrick Mendes presents an initiation ritual in a community at the ends of the earth.
Assistant Director
After fourteen years away from her homeland, Salomé is forced to return to Cape Verde to see her dying brother. During her stopover at Lisbon airport, Águeda, a cleaning lady, recognizes Salomé as "Mila", her childhood friend. Águeda invites Salomé to leave the airport and spend the stopover at her home, with the women of her family. The neighborhood transports her on a spiritual journey, whose destination reveals a painful bond with her homeland.
Second Assistant Director
Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to create an advertising slogan for the drink Coca-Louca; but conservative government authorities consider the new drink as revolutionary as it is diabolical.
Assistant Director
A father's journey to save his son.
Editor
In an automated world, an old factory feeds on its own work force.
Producer
In an automated world, an old factory feeds on its own work force.
Screenplay
In an automated world, an old factory feeds on its own work force.
Director
In an automated world, an old factory feeds on its own work force.
Editor
The story of an ambulant sharpener who crosses spaces in a (almost) lifeless country.
Producer
The story of an ambulant sharpener who crosses spaces in a (almost) lifeless country.
Screenplay
The story of an ambulant sharpener who crosses spaces in a (almost) lifeless country.
Director
The story of an ambulant sharpener who crosses spaces in a (almost) lifeless country.
First Assistant Director
Sofia lives a strangely isolated life in the old apartment where she grew up in Lisbon. Mariama arrives from Guinea-Bissau, having been hired by Sofia’s mother to help take care of the house and her son. The appearance of Bobô, Mariama’s younger sister, awakens in Sofia the desire to take a stand. The forced cohabitation between Sofia and Mariama forces them to confront their own private ghosts.
Assistant Director
An American writer visits the old Portuguese town of Guimarães for a lecture on the work of Edgar Allan Poe. What would seem like a nice little trip goes terrible wrong when his own paranoia takes over the events that follow... or maybe not.
Producer
A dehydrated man trespasses an estate and ends up by losing his freedom.
Screenplay
A dehydrated man trespasses an estate and ends up by losing his freedom.
Director
A dehydrated man trespasses an estate and ends up by losing his freedom.
Second Assistant Director
Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.
Marseillais Man
Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.
Editor
A girl after being exposed to a work of art, enters a psychotic hallucination caused by Stendhal syndrome.
Screenplay
A girl after being exposed to a work of art, enters a psychotic hallucination caused by Stendhal syndrome.
Director
A girl after being exposed to a work of art, enters a psychotic hallucination caused by Stendhal syndrome.
Sound
A documentary that portrays not only the poet and painter Mario Cesariny but as well his life, his journey and his individuality.
