António da Silva

Directing

António da Silva

Place of birth

Portugal

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Award-winning Portuguese artist filmmaker based in London. With the objective of combining his interests in cinema, performance and visual arts, da Silva undertook two master degrees in London, the first in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins and the second in Dance for the Screen at The Place – London Contemporary Dance School. Experimenting is the core of his work.

Known for

Penis Poetry poster
4.0

This is a poetic film about The Penis becoming a diary with a unique story to tell. Penis Poetry is made in collaboration with Andre Medeiros Martins who wrote on his lovers' penises his personal thoughts. Andre's words reflect how much our modern society glorifies the exhibition of The Penis, how much we worship it and how much social media and apps allowed us to share our most private parts with the world.

Penis Poetry

2017

Plant Magic poster
NR

PLANT MAGIC is a poetic, audiovisual experience with the elements of water, naked male bodies and agaves (agave attenuata). It is an idyllic world of bright light and sexual openness.

Plant Magic

2021

Water Mirror poster
1.0

This is not a porn film. This is not LA. In this film the protagonist ( Rowland ) emerges from the sea almost as primal man. He is Ecosexual, he transforms himself into a clay living sculpture, he becomes a 70’s movie character and at the end he returns to the sea. It presents the male body as erotic object and as thinking, feeling subject. This is a poetic film about water. Water is represented as a cleansing element; as a substance that restores man to his original form. Water as a nurturing element; as a substance that can hold the entirety of a man’s weight. In this film water is an element that is distinct from man: feminine, fluid, translucent. The hardness of a man’s cock, the strength of a man’s body, the power of a man’s ejaculation are made even more masculine in the presence of water.

Water Mirror

2022

Showers poster
NR

SHOWERS is a steamy short film that takes place in the men’s showers. It was here that I had my first cruising experience. The shower is often used as a convenient place to relax and masturbate, and a solo shower is one of the most common porn videos in the internet. Not only do we wash our bodies while we’re showering, but it can also be a genuine form of self-care. The sensation of water caressing and touching ourselves to clean our bodies can be very stimulating. It increases blood flow and it helps to reduce stress.

Showers

2023

Wild Garden poster
NR

In an abandoned wild garden, water and plants give life to statue of a naked man. This rebirth brings him close to his ancestors and to the garden that he created to explore his sexual desires. This pleasure garden was a haven of peace and abundance with mystery and beauty. A metaphysical space of intimacy for personal fantasies and erotic desires. Into the wilderness he goes hunting to be hunted.

Wild Garden

2022

Gingers poster
4.0

Redheads. Fire crotches… This film collects samples of their testimonials and their body hair and skin. About being different genetically, about gay gingers, doubly in a minority, from Ireland to Israel to Brazil. A film made especially for ginger lovers.

Gingers

2013

Behind the camera

Penis Poetry poster
4.0

This is a poetic film about The Penis becoming a diary with a unique story to tell. Penis Poetry is made in collaboration with Andre Medeiros Martins who wrote on his lovers' penises his personal thoughts. Andre's words reflect how much our modern society glorifies the exhibition of The Penis, how much we worship it and how much social media and apps allowed us to share our most private parts with the world.

Penis Poetry

2017

Penis Poetry poster
4.0

This is a poetic film about The Penis becoming a diary with a unique story to tell. Penis Poetry is made in collaboration with Andre Medeiros Martins who wrote on his lovers' penises his personal thoughts. Andre's words reflect how much our modern society glorifies the exhibition of The Penis, how much we worship it and how much social media and apps allowed us to share our most private parts with the world.

Penis Poetry

2017

Plant Magic poster
NR

PLANT MAGIC is a poetic, audiovisual experience with the elements of water, naked male bodies and agaves (agave attenuata). It is an idyllic world of bright light and sexual openness.

Plant Magic

2021

Plant Magic poster
NR

PLANT MAGIC is a poetic, audiovisual experience with the elements of water, naked male bodies and agaves (agave attenuata). It is an idyllic world of bright light and sexual openness.

Plant Magic

2021

Water Mirror poster
1.0

This is not a porn film. This is not LA. In this film the protagonist ( Rowland ) emerges from the sea almost as primal man. He is Ecosexual, he transforms himself into a clay living sculpture, he becomes a 70’s movie character and at the end he returns to the sea. It presents the male body as erotic object and as thinking, feeling subject. This is a poetic film about water. Water is represented as a cleansing element; as a substance that restores man to his original form. Water as a nurturing element; as a substance that can hold the entirety of a man’s weight. In this film water is an element that is distinct from man: feminine, fluid, translucent. The hardness of a man’s cock, the strength of a man’s body, the power of a man’s ejaculation are made even more masculine in the presence of water.

Water Mirror

2022

Water Mirror poster
1.0

This is not a porn film. This is not LA. In this film the protagonist ( Rowland ) emerges from the sea almost as primal man. He is Ecosexual, he transforms himself into a clay living sculpture, he becomes a 70’s movie character and at the end he returns to the sea. It presents the male body as erotic object and as thinking, feeling subject. This is a poetic film about water. Water is represented as a cleansing element; as a substance that restores man to his original form. Water as a nurturing element; as a substance that can hold the entirety of a man’s weight. In this film water is an element that is distinct from man: feminine, fluid, translucent. The hardness of a man’s cock, the strength of a man’s body, the power of a man’s ejaculation are made even more masculine in the presence of water.

Water Mirror

2022

Showers poster
NR

SHOWERS is a steamy short film that takes place in the men’s showers. It was here that I had my first cruising experience. The shower is often used as a convenient place to relax and masturbate, and a solo shower is one of the most common porn videos in the internet. Not only do we wash our bodies while we’re showering, but it can also be a genuine form of self-care. The sensation of water caressing and touching ourselves to clean our bodies can be very stimulating. It increases blood flow and it helps to reduce stress.

Showers

2023

Showers poster
NR

SHOWERS is a steamy short film that takes place in the men’s showers. It was here that I had my first cruising experience. The shower is often used as a convenient place to relax and masturbate, and a solo shower is one of the most common porn videos in the internet. Not only do we wash our bodies while we’re showering, but it can also be a genuine form of self-care. The sensation of water caressing and touching ourselves to clean our bodies can be very stimulating. It increases blood flow and it helps to reduce stress.

Showers

2023

Wild Garden poster
NR

In an abandoned wild garden, water and plants give life to statue of a naked man. This rebirth brings him close to his ancestors and to the garden that he created to explore his sexual desires. This pleasure garden was a haven of peace and abundance with mystery and beauty. A metaphysical space of intimacy for personal fantasies and erotic desires. Into the wilderness he goes hunting to be hunted.

Wild Garden

2022

Wild Garden poster
NR

In an abandoned wild garden, water and plants give life to statue of a naked man. This rebirth brings him close to his ancestors and to the garden that he created to explore his sexual desires. This pleasure garden was a haven of peace and abundance with mystery and beauty. A metaphysical space of intimacy for personal fantasies and erotic desires. Into the wilderness he goes hunting to be hunted.

Wild Garden

2022

Gingers poster
4.0

Redheads. Fire crotches… This film collects samples of their testimonials and their body hair and skin. About being different genetically, about gay gingers, doubly in a minority, from Ireland to Israel to Brazil. A film made especially for ginger lovers.

Gingers

2013

Dancers poster
4.6

Thirty-five Portuguese dancers undress in front of the camera. They become the object of desire with a sensual provocative performance. Eclectic dance disciplines help this film to explore an exhibitionist view of the male nude. This is a statement about the current financial situation in Portugal and the lack of fundings to support artistic initiatives.

Dancers

2014

Ecosexual poster
5.4

Ecosexual is a poetic monologue set in the Portuguese Mediterranean coast in Algarve about loving and making love with nature. It presents the male body as erotic object and as thinking, feeling subject. Through the senses of taste, touch, smell and sight, the protagonist loses himself in a communion with the natural world.

Ecosexual

2015

Ecosexual poster
5.4

Ecosexual is a poetic monologue set in the Portuguese Mediterranean coast in Algarve about loving and making love with nature. It presents the male body as erotic object and as thinking, feeling subject. Through the senses of taste, touch, smell and sight, the protagonist loses himself in a communion with the natural world.

Ecosexual

2015

Daniel poster
2.0

Daniel is a Brazilian amateur video maker, male model and erotic performer. He has dazzled many of you in previous films like BRAZIL CARNIVAL, BRAZIL SOLOS, CAR CRUISING and WC CRUISING. Watch him again horny at home performing sex through digital media.

Daniel

2020

Daniel poster
2.0

Daniel is a Brazilian amateur video maker, male model and erotic performer. He has dazzled many of you in previous films like BRAZIL CARNIVAL, BRAZIL SOLOS, CAR CRUISING and WC CRUISING. Watch him again horny at home performing sex through digital media.

Daniel

2020

Cariocas poster
2.5

A voyeuristic hunt during a trip to Rio de Janeiro with lots of sea, sun, sweat and personal encounters. Brazilian men care about their physique and they freely allow admiration of their sculpted bodies. The sensuality of those men creates blurry sexual identities. An outdoors gym in the Arpoador area unveiled to me the vibrancy of the country and the diversity of men.

Cariocas

2014

Julian poster
5.4

Julian is an experimental biographical piece about two men – Julian and Antonio – who disconnected themselves from the anxious city, and allowed their spirits to be taken by nature. It is a slightly voyeuristic love letter about and to Julian – the Swiss man whom the narrator has briefly met in London and, shortly after, invited to a road-trip to Portugal.

Julian

2012

Julian poster
5.4

Julian is an experimental biographical piece about two men – Julian and Antonio – who disconnected themselves from the anxious city, and allowed their spirits to be taken by nature. It is a slightly voyeuristic love letter about and to Julian – the Swiss man whom the narrator has briefly met in London and, shortly after, invited to a road-trip to Portugal.

Julian

2012

Daddies poster
5.0

There is always the first time you are called a daddy. It’s more than just a question of age. Leather Daddies, Daddy Bears and Daddies that don’t fit into the usual categories. They talk about their Daddy identity, gay relationships, polyamory, and appetite for sex. Monogamy and open relationships co-exist in San Francisco as they do everywhere, but nowhere else has so many polyamorous men, men who embrace multiple love in their own personal way within the community. It is not just daddy/son, there are also guys in a number of relationships, or men in triads or foursomes.

Daddies

2014

Mermen poster
NR

The MERMAN short film invites viewers into the enchanting underwater world of Merman Pete and Merman Rand. Viewers are invited to immerse themselves in the creators’ underwater world. The film resonates with those who feel a deep connection to water and its symbolism.

Mermen

2024

Mermen poster
NR

The MERMAN short film invites viewers into the enchanting underwater world of Merman Pete and Merman Rand. Viewers are invited to immerse themselves in the creators’ underwater world. The film resonates with those who feel a deep connection to water and its symbolism.

Mermen

2024

Thomas Outside poster
NR

Grundvold is Danish video artist and photographer, but is in the rough Scottish landscape where he feels at home. Nature is an essential part of his work, it helps him to heal his mind.

Thomas Outside

2021

Thomas Outside poster
NR

Grundvold is Danish video artist and photographer, but is in the rough Scottish landscape where he feels at home. Nature is an essential part of his work, it helps him to heal his mind.

Thomas Outside

2021

Be Sexual poster
1.0

Be Sexual interviews some participants from the short film Bankers. They are bisexual married men who carry their secret desire for other men. They demonstrate how they get fulfilled by hooking up in public toilets. They describe how it feels to be attracted to men and where this emotion fit in their daily married lives. These men live double lives and they question the need for bisexual labeling. All they want is to Be Sexual.

Be Sexual

2016

Beach 19 poster
2.0

Without a single word Beach 19 manages to speaks through images what happens in Portugal’s most famous gay beach. Just twenty minutes outside of Lisbon it is widely known for its gay cruising action. Facing the Atlantic Ocean Beach 19 is a paradise for nudists. For many gay tourists seeking relaxation this is the ultimate place for sea, sun and sex.

Beach 19

2014

Mates poster
4.8

A short film about anonymous bodies using online flirting.

Mates

2012

Brazil Carnival poster
4.0

A film about the carnival in Rio de Janeiro, with bodies that dance, talk and get excited. The city becomes a jungle and everything is allowed, everything emphasises the freedom of expression.

Brazil Carnival

2016

Doggers poster
2.8

At a public car park cars can be seen parked or slowly moving around with drivers ready to sexually engage with others. This is a refuge for men with diversity of age, physical attributes, marital and social status. These men take a break from their daily lives and put into practice some of their innermost desires and fantasies. This place is no longer available for cruising but during its glory days it used to be one of the busiest cruising areas located at the Jamor National Stadium near Lisbon, Portugal. The park was never empty and activities continued from morning to evening hours. This documentary short film was made in collaboration with Miguel de Arroja who had been capturing action on camera since 2001.

Doggers

2015

Nude Dudes poster
3.3

Nude Dudes is about my experience during my visit in Tel Aviv. I was hosted by Matan and Menache, two young guys who practice nudism in their own house. While being flatmates they openly expose their sexual interests to each other and their guests. Managing their online dating profiles is a part of their daily routine. I was intrigued by their non-tabooed dynamic.

Nude Dudes

2014

Limanakia poster
4.6

Limanakia is a wild rocky area located on Leoforos Poseidonos, south of Athens. At those three distinct steep coves, gay Greeks and tourists of all ages and body types find escape away from the commercial beaches of Attiki. It is considered one of the most beautiful place to swim and not only... António takes this opportunity to create a fantasy world.

Limanakia

2014

Brazil Jungle poster
4.7

It is a multi-textural film with the visual appeal of an old school anthropological nature documentary, set in the male garden of Eden. A lost paradise of the Brazilian Amazon. The sex, the desire and the chasing are universal primitive animal instincts.

Brazil Jungle

2016

Bankers poster
3.4

A hidden camera portrays sexual interactions between bankers in a public restroom during their lunch break. No words, just signs, few body sounds, it is a choreography around the urinal at lunch time.

Bankers

2012

Cruising at Beach 19 poster
2.3

BEACH 19 / PRAIA 19 is the most popular gay nudist beach in Portugal, part of a Nature Reserve near Lisbon with a extensive cruising section. Tension! Fervor! Satisfaction of outdoor sex! The tension rises slowly and seductively, the warm wind blows and the heat of summer burns, the action builds into a full-on group masturbation, sucking and fucking session. In this film, the visuals speak for themselves.

Cruising at Beach 19

2018

Cruising in the Park poster
4.5

This film portrays the journey of a “straight” married man who has the habit of cruising in the park next to his work place during his lunch break. He is a hunter however he is also hunted. Mostly he plays with other discrete married man, they enjoy looking at each others hard erections, mutual masturbation, sucking and fucking. It is a ritual of brief encounters in the woods. After ejaculating, he walks away back to his unsatisfactory job.

Cruising in the Park

2018

Pix poster
4.9

A series of flickering images (faceless-selfies) of 2500 gay men building a three minutes animation portraying what is happening in the “marketplace of desire”. Thousands of male bodies in typical male poses are put together creating the mosaic of one body. A mirror, an exposed torso and the promise for NSA fun have become the synonym to today’s gay behavior with dating.

Pix

2014

Spunk poster
3.5

Spunk is an experimental documentary where reality and virtual reality blend into a surrealistic sexual collage. 36 minutes long, it showcases digital sex with webcams, mobile phones and the fantasies the participants live through the digital media. Spunk has two parts. In the first it references the internet aesthetics and online gay cruising through time. In the second it transports the viewer into a fantasy world. In those virtual settings horny men openly demonstrate their cyber sexuality.

Spunk

2015

Mates poster
4.8

A short film about anonymous bodies using online flirting.

Mates

2012

Solos poster
7.5

Solos portrays a diversity of characters expressing themselves sexually. They speak about their fetishes, connection and fantasies. Underwear, leather, rubber, jeans, socks, boots, big penises, tattoos, hairy, extended ejaculations, ropes, childhood memories and more. Some take this opportunity to express their exhibitionism on camera going all the way from unzipping to cumming.

Solos

2015

Cruising Poetry poster
1.0

Cruising is usually associated to dark, dirty and hidden places where men meet for casual sex. There is a lot of prejudice against cruising. In this film the participants burn sage to do a cleansing ritual in cruising places. They are male nature spirits dancing naked with erections turning the space into a playful cruising ground, where it is possible to build connections between body, heart, mind, soul and nature. When we connect to all of that we are instead of splitting off and losing ourselves, the cruising ground can turn into a sacred place where we can feel grounded, secure, in harmony with the others and the surroundings.

Cruising Poetry

2018