About

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31
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Place of birth:
Portugal
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João Maria Gusmão

Overview

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.

Known for

Directing
2018 Sleeping Flamingo Directing Director N/A
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2016 Chopping Fruits and Vegetables Directing Director N/A
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2014 Papagaio (Djambi) Directing Director N/A
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2013 Triangles and Squares Directing Director 59
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2013 Proboscis Directing Director 59
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2013 Three Albinos Telling Jokes by the Fireplace Directing Director 59
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2012 Placing the Fisheye Directing Director 59
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2012 Those Animals That, at a Distance, Resemble Flies Directing Director 59
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2011 Wheels Directing Director N/A
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2011 Benguelino Casting a Spell on the Camera Directing Director N/A
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2011 Solar, the Blindman Easting a Papaya Directing Director N/A
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2011 Bread, Tea and Bao Game Directing Director 59
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2011 Cowfish Directing Director N/A
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2011 Getting into bed Directing Director N/A
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2011 Dream of a Ray Fish Directing Director 59
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2011 The Horse of the Prophet Directing Director N/A
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2010 Pot Smaller than Pot Directing Director N/A
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2010 Heat Ray Directing Director N/A
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2010 Cassowary Directing Director 59
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2009 Hand Smaller than Hand Directing Director N/A
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2009 3 Sóis Directing Director N/A
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2009 Ventriloquismo Directing Director N/A
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2009 A Coluna de Colombo Directing Director N/A
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2009 The Soup Directing Director 59
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2008 Meteoritica Directing Director N/A
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2008 Fried Egg Directing Director 59
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2008 The Initiate Directing Director 59
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2007 The Human Torch Directing Director N/A
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2007 Eye Eclipse Directing Director 59
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Spaguetti Tornado Directing Director N/A
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Turtle Directing Director N/A
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