Pedro Costa
Nascimento : 1958-12-30, Lisbon, Portugal
História
Pedro Costa is a Portuguese film director. While studying history at University of Lisbon, Costa switched to film courses at Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema) where he was a student of António Reis, Paulo Rocha and Alberto Seixas Santos. After working as an assistant director to several directors such as Jorge Silva Melo, Vítor Gonçalves and João Botelho, he made a first feature film O Sangue (The Blood) in 1989. He collected the France Culture Award (Foreign Cineaste of the Year) at 2002 Cannes Film Festival for directing the film In Vanda's Room. Colossal Youth was selected for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and earned the Independent/Experimental prize (Los Angeles Film Critics Association) in 2008. He is considered to be part of "The School of Reis" film family. António Reis, Portuguese director, was his teacher at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called Pedro Costa "the Samuel Beckett of cinema". He is acclaimed for using his ascetic style to depict the marginalised people in desperate living situations. Many of his films are set in a district of Lisbon inhabited by socially disadvantaged and shot in a natural and low-key way in documentary format: some are docufictions.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira y and the film's director, with their own personal views, share that thin line that links life with cinema.
Director
"As Filhas do Fogo" follows the story of three young cape-verdean sisters upon their arrival at a foreign European port, in an attempt to escape another devastating eruption of the volcano Fogo. In this unknown country, they roam, hand in hand, evoking their secret fears through music and singing.
Screenplay
Quando seu marido parte para encontrar trabalho em Portugal, Vitalina fica em Cabo Verde. Anos depois, ela finalmente faz a viagem a Lisboa, mas chega três dias após seu funeral. Sozinha e isolada na casa de seu falecido marido, ela está determinada a perseverar e enfrentar os fantasmas do passado.
Director
Quando seu marido parte para encontrar trabalho em Portugal, Vitalina fica em Cabo Verde. Anos depois, ela finalmente faz a viagem a Lisboa, mas chega três dias após seu funeral. Sozinha e isolada na casa de seu falecido marido, ela está determinada a perseverar e enfrentar os fantasmas do passado.
Himself
“Sacavém” is a journey through Pedro Costa’s films and focused on his work on “Down to Earth”, “Bones”, “In Vanda's Room“, “Colossal Youth” and “Horse Money” Built on the visual and sound landscape of Pedro Costa’s films and accompanied by his owns reflections on the matter, “Sacavém” serves the audience has a window on how Costas cinema is sensed and conceived.
Himself
Six authorities of cinema describe their approach to transcendence, mysticism, spirituality and life after dead.
Writer
While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Director
While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Director of Photography
Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.
Screenplay
Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.
Director
Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.
Writer
A participant in a coup d'état by young commissioned officers, Ventura loses his way within the woods. Eventually, Ventura is admitted into a mental hospital where he has conversations with "ghosts" of the past in the hospital's elevator.
Director
A participant in a coup d'état by young commissioned officers, Ventura loses his way within the woods. Eventually, Ventura is admitted into a mental hospital where he has conversations with "ghosts" of the past in the hospital's elevator.
Story
Um homem misterioso entrega cartas para pessoas. Dias depois, elas aparecem mortas.
Director
Um homem misterioso entrega cartas para pessoas. Dias depois, elas aparecem mortas.
Cinematography
One of the most important figures in contemporary cinema, Pedro Costa's celebrated music documentary is a mesmerizing portrait of French actress-turned-singer Jeanne Balibar, a transfixing, cigarette-smoking chanteuse with an intense devotion to her craft. Photographed in shimmering black-and-white and featuring a soundtrack of jazz-inflected pop songs, the film is a luminous exploration of the creative process.
Director
One of the most important figures in contemporary cinema, Pedro Costa's celebrated music documentary is a mesmerizing portrait of French actress-turned-singer Jeanne Balibar, a transfixing, cigarette-smoking chanteuse with an intense devotion to her craft. Photographed in shimmering black-and-white and featuring a soundtrack of jazz-inflected pop songs, the film is a luminous exploration of the creative process.
Director
An omnibus project examining, well, the state of the world.
Director
Pedro Costa's segment from the Jeonju film "Memories".
Director
Pedro Costa's segment from "O Estado do Mundo".
Director
Previously focused on Asian directors, “Jeonju Digital Project 2007” takes a look at Europe. The Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, the German filmmaker Harun Farocki, and the French filmmaker Eugène Green participated in this project.
Story
Previously focused on Asian directors, “Jeonju Digital Project 2007” takes a look at Europe. The Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, the German filmmaker Harun Farocki, and the French filmmaker Eugène Green participated in this project.
With this movie, Aurélien Gerbault invites us to know the portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa and to witness the process of shooting of his movie Colossal Youth (2006). The nature of Costa's cinema is revealed to us: the criation of an intimate space in the hardness of reality.
Writer
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Cinematography
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Director
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Director
Pedro Costa's 2006 installation Little Boy Male, Little Girl Female is made up of additional footage from In Vanda's Room and Colossal Youth. Interior and exterior spaces in Fountainhas are set side by side. Editing the images is left up to the viewer.
Director
A short film showing a rehearsal and live performance by Jeanne Balibar. Costa would go on to make a feature-length documentary with the same title and subject matter in 2009.
Director
Director of Photography
Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Costa records with great sensitivity and insight the exacting process by which the two re-edit their film Sicilia!, discussing and arguing over each cut and its effect. Incorporating comments about the influence of figures as diverse as Chaplin and Eisenstein, about the ethical and aesthetic implications of film technique and such matters as rhythm, sound mixing, and acting. The film becomes a tour de force, immersing us in the mysteries of cinema as practiced by some of its greatest creators. Costa calls the film both his first comedy and his first love story.
Director
Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Costa records with great sensitivity and insight the exacting process by which the two re-edit their film Sicilia!, discussing and arguing over each cut and its effect. Incorporating comments about the influence of figures as diverse as Chaplin and Eisenstein, about the ethical and aesthetic implications of film technique and such matters as rhythm, sound mixing, and acting. The film becomes a tour de force, immersing us in the mysteries of cinema as practiced by some of its greatest creators. Costa calls the film both his first comedy and his first love story.
Screenplay
A man is standing at the window, holding a chair. There are wafts of street noise, and occasionally the curtain flutters. A dog is barking. Then, elegiac music sets in, a lavish string arrangement of Billie Holiday's The End of a Love Affair. With this one-shot film, Pedro Costa portrays the state of feeling of the afterwards of a love affair which led nowhere.
Director
A man is standing at the window, holding a chair. There are wafts of street noise, and occasionally the curtain flutters. A dog is barking. Then, elegiac music sets in, a lavish string arrangement of Billie Holiday's The End of a Love Affair. With this one-shot film, Pedro Costa portrays the state of feeling of the afterwards of a love affair which led nowhere.
Director of Photography
The original television version of 'Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?'
Director
The original television version of 'Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?'
Intertwined interviews of filmmaker Pedro Costa and philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy.
Director
Six unused scenes from Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? One of the more priceless of the “bagatelles” in this collection features a lounging Jean-Marie Straub who gives a non-stop disquisition on liberty and filmmaking while Danièle Huillet busies herself with laundry, and their dog Melchior frisks in and out of frame. —Cinematheque Ontario
Screenplay
Vanda Duarte é uma jovem tóxico-dependente. Isolada do mundo exterior, fechada em seu quarto pobre, vive com mágoa e desencanto, sentimentos que partilha com alguns familiares e amigos. Paralelamente, o bairro das Fontainhas, no norte de Lisboa, onde ela mora, começa a ser destruído pelos tratores.
Director of Photography
Vanda Duarte é uma jovem tóxico-dependente. Isolada do mundo exterior, fechada em seu quarto pobre, vive com mágoa e desencanto, sentimentos que partilha com alguns familiares e amigos. Paralelamente, o bairro das Fontainhas, no norte de Lisboa, onde ela mora, começa a ser destruído pelos tratores.
Director
Vanda Duarte é uma jovem tóxico-dependente. Isolada do mundo exterior, fechada em seu quarto pobre, vive com mágoa e desencanto, sentimentos que partilha com alguns familiares e amigos. Paralelamente, o bairro das Fontainhas, no norte de Lisboa, onde ela mora, começa a ser destruído pelos tratores.
Screenplay
No Estrela de África, um bairro crioulo dos arredores de Lisboa, um bebé de poucos dias irá sobreviver a várias mortes. Tina, a sua jovem mãe, pega-lhe ao colo e abre o gás. Resgatado pelo pai, ele dormirá nas ruas da cidade alimentado pelo leite da caridade alheia. Por duas vezes, quase será vendido, por desespero, por amor, por quase nada. Mas Tina não se esquece: com a ajuda das suas vizinhas do bairro a vingança aproxima-se...
Director
No Estrela de África, um bairro crioulo dos arredores de Lisboa, um bebé de poucos dias irá sobreviver a várias mortes. Tina, a sua jovem mãe, pega-lhe ao colo e abre o gás. Resgatado pelo pai, ele dormirá nas ruas da cidade alimentado pelo leite da caridade alheia. Por duas vezes, quase será vendido, por desespero, por amor, por quase nada. Mas Tina não se esquece: com a ajuda das suas vizinhas do bairro a vingança aproxima-se...
Writer
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
Director
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
Editor
Do isolamento da sua ilha, X, uma personagem sem nome observa , no exterior, uma cena cujo sentido lhe escapa, e o faz partir numa viagem circular pelos percursos da sua memória/imaginação: o homem da espingarda, o estúdio da TV, um estranho passageiro de comboio, a rapariga que entrava por janelas fechadas, a organização misteriosa, o velho que tinha a solução, o homem que sabia o que andava a vender, uma imagem de taxi...
Screenplay
Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there.
Director
Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there.
Assistant Director
AGOSTO é o oposto das chamadas fitas de Verão, como as paixões que lá se contam estão nos antípodas dos amores de praia.
Assistant Director
It is the end of summer and Isabel is a relationship with Diogo. She don't quite know what she wants from her life going forward as her father gets sick.
Assistant Director
Filme realizado por João Botelho em 1985, e que contou com a participação de Rui Furtado, Isabel de Castro e Maria Cabral, entre outros atores. A ação desta longa-metragem desenvolve-se em dois planos que se entrecruzam habilmente: no primeiro, acompanha-se o percurso trágico de um grupo de militares em território africano, em combate na Guerra Colonial; no outro, assiste-se à vivência perturbada de uma família, longe do teatro de operações. Um Adeus Português é, assim, uma reflexão, mais existencial do que política, sobre o sacrifício e o sofrimento. O seu interesse reside no facto de abordar o tema da Guerra Colonial portuguesa, acontecimento histórico recente que, por esta altura, começava a ser tratado na criação artística, nomeadamente na literatura.
Director
Pedro Costa first foray into filmmaking was a short-film co-produced for RTP within a series named “Cartas a Júlia.”
A conversation between Pedro Costa, Andy Rector and Craig Keller.
