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Mini Biography

The first phase of Edgar Pêra's work started in 1984, shooting Portuguese rock bands in a Nero-realist style, and reaches its acme with A Cidade de Cassiano /The City of Cassiano (1991). He directs his first feature in 1994 Pêra directs the cult movie Manual de Evasão LX 94/Manual of Evasion (for Lisbon 1994 Capital of Culture), articulating an aesthetic legacy of soviet silent films, with a neuro-punk way of creating and capturing instantaneous reality. Pêra invited three major counterculture American writers: Terence Mckenna, Robert Anton Wilson and Rudy Rucker and asked them about the nature of time. A Janela (Maryalva Mix)/The Window (Don Juan Mix), premieres at the Locarno Festival in 2001. In 2006 Edgar Pêra has a major retrospective at the Indie Lisboa where it's also shown Movimentos Perpétuos/Perpetual Movements, and wins awards in almost every category of the festival. In Paris he wins the Pasolini Award for his career, along with Alejandro Jodorowsky, Agnes B. and Fernando Arrabal. O Barão/The Baron a Nero-gothic feature premieres in 2011 at the Rotterdam Film festival. Over the past three years Pêra directed several short films, independent documentaries about Madredeus and other Portuguese bands, based on his personal archives, and started to experiment in the 3D format. Pêra's last film, Cinespiens is a segment of 3X3D, an anthology 3D feature with 2 other films by Jean-Luc Godard link and Peter Greenaway.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Miguel Pereira

Trivia

He calls himself Homem-Kâmara, and professes to live to archive life in films. By mid 2010, his CV lists over one hundred works for the screen, television, Internet, live shows, galleries, and other events.

Graduate of the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (ESTC), Lisbon, early 1980s.

Pêra occasionally writes fiction and essays for newspapers and is also a graphic comic artist.

Edgar Pêra has done more than one hundred films for cinema, TV, theatre dance, cine-concerts, galleries, Internet and other media.