Parallel Planes

A portrait of 12 independent American musicians in a journey between genres. An essay on free thinking and an intimate look at how music can be used to criticize politics and society, but also that our different ideas are bonded to each other.

John and Yoko: Above Us Only Sky

A documentary on the untold story of John Lennon’s song ‘Imagine’ and the depth of the creative collaboration between John and Yoko Ono, exploring how art, politics and music of the pair were intrinsically entwined.

Just What the Doctor Ordered

For filmmaker Edgar Pera his trip to China, filmed in color Super8 film, “My Trip to China,” reflects the sound of ‘Just What the Doctor Ordered’.

Leto

Leningrad, 1983. The underground rock scene is boiling. Viktor Tsoi is eager to make a name for himself. The relationship with his wife will change his life forever. Together they will build Kino, the most popular and influential band in Russia’s popular music.

He Ain’t Got Rhythm!

Illustrator Gonçalo Duarte animates and inverts the colors, turning the canvas into a blackboard, where he draws lines suggesting childhood chalky scribbles.

Fire Music

A look at the astonishing sounds of that combustible and wildly diverse moment in music known as free jazz, which more or less began with Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Cecil Taylor. A fittingly free tribute to music that makes your hair stand on end.

Garland

The verbal abstraction of Bruno Borges’ film plays on the syncopated, almost hysterical, almost brutal musical fabric of ‘Garland’, producing a dichotomous and syncretic tune.

Dopping

Filmmaker Leonor Noivo excavates some fitness exercises from the televised aerobic craze and constructs something both rigid and sensuous.

Ela é uma Música

In this documentary we walk through the forgotten female version of Portuguese rock music history. From the 1950’s to the present days, director Francisca Marvão collects various testimonies to shed light on the women who rock.

Ella

Filmmaker and musician Vasco Reis Ruivo went to Asia in search of gazes and smiles (mainly smiles) and also smoke and cigarettes.

Expire Date

Ostraliana uses the rhythmic drum vibration of the 3’25 minutes ‘Expire Date’ to turn professional dance into photographic drawings (rotoscopy).

August at Akiko’s

Conhece o Havai? Essa é a pergunta que o protagonista de “August at Akiko’s”, o músico cosmopolita Alex Zhang Hungtai (da banda Dirty Beaches), se coloca quando regressa à ilha onde cresceu. Aterra com apenas uma mala de viagem e o seu saxofone, mas é confrontado com uma desilusão: tudo o que encontra está muito distante das suas memórias de infância. Será na companhia de uma senhora mais velha, Akiko, que Alex descobrirá uma paisagem à qual consegue finalmente ligar-se. Um deslumbrante filme que através do conto de fadas dá um novo significado à espiritualidade.

Big Sneeze

We can not demobilize by looking away from our information society. Television is as important as the microscope.

1 – Pedro Ayres de Magalhães

Edgar Pêra, the ‘Kamera-Man’, has been shooting his cine-diaries since the 1980’s, paying special attention to punk bands. His “Kino-Pop Archives” include rare performances by singular Portuguese musicians, like Pedro Ayres de Magalhães (Heróis do Mar e Madredeus).

13 – Farinha Master

 

Edgar Pêra, the ‘Kamera-Man’, has been shooting his cine-diaries since the 1980’s, paying special attention to punk bands. His “Kino-Pop Archives” include rare performances by singular Portuguese musicians, like Farinha Master (lOcaso Épico).