Acting
Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos
Born — Died
1923-08-09 — 2006-11-26
Place of birth
Lisbon, Portugal
Known for
Acting
Credits
5 titles
Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos was a Portuguese surrealist poet. He published several major works during a career spanning 50 years. Cesariny was also a painter, but his work became more centered on poetry in the 1950s. Mário Cesariny was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the youngest child and only son of Viriato de Vasconcelos and María de las Mercedes Cesariny, a Spaniard of French but originally Italian ancestry. Mário Cesariny studied in the prestigious Escola de Artes Decorativas António Arroio and also studied music with the composer Fernando Lopes Graça. Later he joined the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, where he met André Breton in 1947. He soon became influenced by the French s…
Known for
NRThe life and work of painter Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923-2006), one of the most important artists of the portuguese surrealist movement, both in literature and the visual arts. Includes statements from the artist, his friends, and scholars of his artistic oeuvre. A documentary originally exhibited on the day of his death at the age of 83.
Ama Como a Estrada Começa
2006
9.0The film documents the places where the Portuguese painter Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992), and Hungarian Arpad Szenes were born, met, and lived together, painting, and living to each other.
Ma Femme Chamada Bicho
1978
NRCruzeiro Seixas lives in a maze where every path leads to Mário Cesariny. Subdued by that obsessive love and hate relationship, Cruzeiro Seixos did not fully live, but left proofs of that non-existence: 95 years of paintings and poetry that await full recognition alongside other surrealist masters.
Cruzeiro Seixas - The Letters of King Artur
2017
6.8A documentary that portrays not only the poet and painter Mario Cesariny but as well his life, his journey and his individuality.
Autography
2004
NRA personal tribute to the poet Alexandre O'Neill by his dear friend Fernando Lopes.
Alexandre O’Neill - Tomai lá do O’Neill
2004
Film credits
2000s · 3 titles
NRThe life and work of painter Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923-2006), one of the most important artists of the portuguese surrealist movement, both in literature and the visual arts. Includes statements from the artist, his friends, and scholars of his artistic oeuvre. A documentary originally exhibited on the day of his death at the age of 83.
Ama Como a Estrada Começa
2006
6.8A documentary that portrays not only the poet and painter Mario Cesariny but as well his life, his journey and his individuality.
Autography
2004
NRA personal tribute to the poet Alexandre O'Neill by his dear friend Fernando Lopes.
Alexandre O’Neill - Tomai lá do O’Neill
2004