António de Macedo

António Luiz Ernesto de Macedo ( born July 5, 1931 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese film director and author.

• 3.1 active
• 3.2 Passive

Life

Born on July 5, 1931 in Lisbon, he attended school here. After high school he enrolled at the School of Art Escola Superior de Belas Artes, where he completed a study of architecture. As a student, he worked as a draftsman for the Câmara Municipal, the city council of Lisbon, where he was active as an architect after graduation. Since he was 16 he turned 8- mm and 16- mm films, one of which ( Ode Triunfal, an 8 -mm film adaptation of a Fernando Pessoa poem ) earned him his first commission, a commercial documentary for the brewery Central de Cervejas called Verão coincidente (English about: Simultaneous summer). As a result, he shot a series short films. As the producer António da Cunha Telles 1964 enabled him to film adaptation of Fernando Domingo à Tarde Namoras novel, he gave up his profession of architect, and is dedicated to henceforth only the film and writing. The film received a Diploma de Merito 1965 Honorary Award at the Venice Film Festival. By his own screenplay, based on a poem Alexandre O'Neill, and with music of Quinteto Académico, he put 1967 then the thriller Sete Balas Para Selma (German: seven balls for Selma ) ready.

Macedo was one of the founders of the pioneering film - cooperative Centro Português de Cinema (CPC, 1970) and the Cooperative Cinequanon (1974 ), and thus one of the directors of Novo Cinemas, the new Portuguese film.. He turned a number of documentaries for public television RTP, such as on the independence of Mozambique in 1975 One of his most significant feature films of this phase was A Promessa ( Eng.: The Promise ), a in the coastal town of Figueira da Foz rotated Fischer drama, in which Michel Giacometti consultant was. The film, based on a play by Bernardo Santareno, was the most commercially successful work of the CPC, and was also on the Cannes Film Festival in 1973 relative success was also, not least thanks to its high-profile controversy, As Horas de Maria (German: ., The hours of Maria), a critical film about a dying man who waits in vain for the assistance of the Virgin Mary, and in the marian devotion, especially the Fatima cult is doubted. In the climate of progressive social upheavals in Portugal after the Carnation Revolution (1974 ) rotated, the film only in 1979 that was released in theaters, and now called a violent wave of protests by conservative and Christian pages show that in also in demonstrations in front of the cinema, and in throwing stones storefront with the movie poster and visitors expressed. 1975 had provided about the Fatima - topic, for first, but not so much controversy already Fatima Story, a film.

Especially for television documentaries he produced afterwards, about the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Instituto Superior Técnico campus (1985 ), as well as miniseries and several feature films. For some of his films, which are now often sat with supernatural apart, he was nominated for several film awards.

Also he dedicated the theater. In 1983, he staged O Marinheiro ( Eng.: The Mariner, by Fernando Pessoa ), at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, and in 1988 he won the Almeida - Garrett Award for new plays, O Osso de Mafoma ( Eng.: The bone of Mafoma ).

Since the 1990s, Macedo became less as a director in appearance, and more frequently as an author. For this he was professor for image analysis ( Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon ) and film director ( Universidade Moderna, Lisbon). One reason for the decline in work as a director was the continuing lack of support from the State Film Institute ICAM or ICA.

In 1996 he turned to Santo António de Todo o Mundo (English: Saint Anthony the world) last another documentation with a religious reference. Macedo also maintains a website on which he dedicated to the esoteric.

Published in 2000 a book on the work of António de Macedo, a joint venture of the publisher Dom Quixote with the publisher of the SPA. 2001 Macedo da honored at the Film Festival of Figueira da Foz for his life's work. In 2006, he earned a Ph.D. in sociology, with a cultural sociological work at the Universidade Nova in Lisbon. During the months of June and July 2012 hosted the national film museum, the Cinemateca Portuguesa, a comprehensive series on the work Macedo, partly with his presence.

Filmography

Direction

Screenplay

Section

Bibliography

Active

• A Evolucao Estética do Cinema. Clube bibliográfico EDITEX, Lisbon 1959/1960 ( for aesthetics in cinema)
• Since Essencia da Liberdade. Sociedade de Expansão Cultural, Lisbon, 1961 ( philosophical text )
• As Horas de Maria. Cinequanon, Lisbon, 1974 ( screenplay)
• A Pombal. Editorial Ulmeiro, Lisbon, 1983 ( play )
• A Nova Ilusão. SPA, Lisbon, 1984 ( play )
• O Osso de Mafoma. SPA, Lisbon, 1990 ( play )
• O Limite de Rudzky. Editorial Caminho, Lisboa 1992 ( science fiction stories )
• Contos de Androthélys. Editorial Caminho, Lisboa, 1993 ( novel)
• Sulphira & Lucyphur. Editorial Caminho, Lisboa 1995 ( novel)
• A Sonata de Cristal. Editorial Caminho, Lisboa 1996 ( novel)
• Erotosofia. Editorial Caminho, Lisboa 1998 ( novel)
• As Furtivas Pegadas because serpente. Editorial Caminho, Lisboa 2004

Passive

• José de Matos- Cruz: António de Macedo - Cinema e Viragem de um P.Temporada. SPA / Dom Quixote, Lisbon 2000