Mário Gajo de Carvalho

Five characters and the deadly sin of greed. A vicious cycle.

A cinematographic adaptation of the piece Poema, by the Portuguese thinker Tomás Maia. An audiovisual poiesis, “presented in a double movement, of flux and reflux, descending and ascending, in a veiled revisitation of the myth of Orpheus—but removing from the myth the male figure (and, therefore, any heroism) and transforming Eurydice into poetry itself, which, unlike the dead, rises above the underground” (from the piece’s original synopsis). A short movie about death, life and art.

"For now we see through a screen, darkly…”

An examination of bodies, movement and the stillness of landscape brought to you by the entrancing Circus Debre Berhan.

Torn between loyalty to her family, and her love for Jason, Medea attacks her father and flees with Jason to unknown lands. Her brother pursues them. When Jason betrays and abandons her, she is driven to the ultimate act of vengeful destruction.

A sad and restrained man lying on the bed in his empty room. Hesitates, ponder hypotheses in a cycle without deciding, stuck. In exhaustion all anguish equals. Another man is sitting at the window: he looks at him and to the street. Characters in broken situations. The key positions, the suspended sequences, are shown. The man almost decides - and they almost return, inside and out, to them and to the city, time and movement. Infinite dawn.

Five characters and the deadly sin of greed. A vicious cycle.

Five characters and the deadly sin of greed. A vicious cycle.

A cinematographic adaptation of the piece Poema, by the Portuguese thinker Tomás Maia. An audiovisual poiesis, “presented in a double movement, of flux and reflux, descending and ascending, in a veiled revisitation of the myth of Orpheus—but removing from the myth the male figure (and, therefore, any heroism) and transforming Eurydice into poetry itself, which, unlike the dead, rises above the underground” (from the piece’s original synopsis). A short movie about death, life and art.

"For now we see through a screen, darkly…”

An examination of bodies, movement and the stillness of landscape brought to you by the entrancing Circus Debre Berhan.

An examination of bodies, movement and the stillness of landscape brought to you by the entrancing Circus Debre Berhan.

Torn between loyalty to her family, and her love for Jason, Medea attacks her father and flees with Jason to unknown lands. Her brother pursues them. When Jason betrays and abandons her, she is driven to the ultimate act of vengeful destruction.

A sad and restrained man lying on the bed in his empty room. Hesitates, ponder hypotheses in a cycle without deciding, stuck. In exhaustion all anguish equals. Another man is sitting at the window: he looks at him and to the street. Characters in broken situations. The key positions, the suspended sequences, are shown. The man almost decides - and they almost return, inside and out, to them and to the city, time and movement. Infinite dawn.

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My friend made a painting from a photograph about a manifestation against the economic crisis and I made a film from that painting. Between these two objects lies a path, which began in a casual photograph and ended in a poorly-lit garage.

A young boy lives his life in a magical way, surrounded by the picturesque atmosphere of his village.

A young boy lives his life in a magical way, surrounded by the picturesque atmosphere of his village.

A young man Nuno, tries to understand how his fate is tied to that of his deceased uncle Nuno, whom he never met.

An obsessive exploration of the three geometric dimensions in hopes of reaching a fourth.