Alberto Seixas Santos

Alberto Seixas Santos

Nascimento : 1936-03-20, Lisbon, Portugal

Morte : 2016-12-10

Perfil

Alberto Seixas Santos

Filmes

Nos Interstícios da Realidade, ou O Cinema de António de Macedo
Self
Feature documentary about ex-maverick filmmaker António de Macedo.
E o Tempo Passa
Screenplay
Teresa é uma actriz de telenovela. O reencontro de uma velha paixão traz-lhe memórias que ela própria julgava perdidas, levando-a a questionar não apenas a sua vida afectiva, mas também as suas opções profissionais. No estúdio onde decorrem as gravações, o labor quotidiano é pontuado pela agitação de um grupo de jovens actores. Afinal, todos perguntam: onde está a felicidade?
E o Tempo Passa
Director
Teresa é uma actriz de telenovela. O reencontro de uma velha paixão traz-lhe memórias que ela própria julgava perdidas, levando-a a questionar não apenas a sua vida afectiva, mas também as suas opções profissionais. No estúdio onde decorrem as gravações, o labor quotidiano é pontuado pela agitação de um grupo de jovens actores. Afinal, todos perguntam: onde está a felicidade?
Lobos
Writer
No Tempo do Cinema
Himself
A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.
A Rapariga da Mão Morta
Writer
Cecília is sixteen years old. She has a prosthesis in her left hand and a new love, but she does not have her mother's attention.
A Rapariga da Mão Morta
Director
Cecília is sixteen years old. She has a prosthesis in her left hand and a new love, but she does not have her mother's attention.
Inventário de Natal
Avô Alberto
A family gathers to celebrate Christmas.
Mal
Writer
Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweler ushers the young girl to a hotel room.
Mal
Director
Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweler ushers the young girl to a hotel room.
Mário Eloy - Um Pintor em Fuga
Art critic (voice)
Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.
O Anjo da Guarda
Voz Off - Pai
Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother, a known political activist with whom she has a distant and tense relationship. In hope of finding the letter, Lúcia leaves to the farm where she grew up, on an isolated location. There she reencounters Álvaro, an old childhood companion, who shares a little life time he has left between roses and the piano, and the guardian angel that follows and protects her through nocturnal wanderings.
Paraíso Perdido
Screenplay
Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man is called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.
Paraíso Perdido
Director
Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man is called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.
Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the Revolution. The white city of foreigners. A geographical and moviegoer screenplay of Lisbon through the images of films and testimonies of several filmmakers who filmed in Lisbon.
Um Passo, Outro Passo e Depois...
Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world is their oyster, Nogueira knows that, for him, most doors have long closed.
Gestos e Fragmentos
Producer
"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.
Gestos e Fragmentos
Writer
"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.
Gestos e Fragmentos
Director
"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.
A Lei da Terra - Alentejo 1976
Director
The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the Portuguese society.
Brandos Costumes
Writer
A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.
Brandos Costumes
Director
A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.
As Armas e o Povo
Director
Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnations Revolution", as that period would be later known.