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February 2011, Red Market, Macao’s famous food market. Two directors, a common look. The gestures and the routines, between life and death. In memoriam Jane Russell (June 21, 1921 – February 28, 2011).Read More »
João Rui Guerra da Mata
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João Rui Guerra da Mata & João Pedro Rodrigues – Alvorada Vermelha AKA Red Dawn (2011)
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João Pedro Rodrigues – Parabéns! AKA Happy Birthday! (1997)
1991-2000ComedyJoão Pedro RodriguesPortugalQueer Cinema(s)Short FilmSynopsis
The silent darkness of the bedroom is broken by a greetings message on the answering-machine. A sudden awakening for Chico on his thirtieth birthday. What a mess! Too late to meet his girlfriend, too late for the meeting at Expo ’98, and, even worse, an outsize hangover. But that’s not all. Lying next to him in bed is a young man with whom he has spent the night. He must now pick up the threads of his everyday life. Meanwhile his companion from the night before, with blue eyes and feline body, wanders around the house feeling both curious and amused, with the restless happiness of a twenty-year old with all the time in the world to spare. It is his hunger for life that, in an undeclared game, will transform what could otherwise have been a normal birthday morning for Chico…Read More » -
João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata – China, China [+Extra] (2007)
2001-2010DramaJoão Rui Guerra da Mata and João Pedro RodriguesPortugalShort FilmSynopsis
China walks towards the Martim Moniz district, in Lisbon. When she passes the children scream: “China, China!”. China is going to fly. To escape far away at dawn. She just wants to be happy. But China drinks her own poison. She drinks it all. Sometimes the air seems loaded with evil and the purgatory is a kindergarden.Read More » -
João Rui Guerra da Mata & João Pedro Rodrigues – Mahjong (2013)
2011-2020DramaJoão Rui Guerra da Mata and João Pedro RodriguesPortugalShort FilmVarziela, Vila do Conde, the biggest Chinatown in Portugal. A man wearing a hat and a missing woman.Read More »
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João Rui Guerra da Mata & João Pedro Rodrigues – IEC Long (2014)
2011-2020ExperimentalJoão Rui Guerra da Mata and João Pedro RodriguesPortugalShort FilmThe latest short film from João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata is a dreamy, experimental look at a deactivated fireworks factory in Macao.
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Macao, Taipa Island, 2014.
The word “panchão” was first heard in Macao. From the Chinese “pan-tcheong” or “pau-tcheong”, dictionaries define it as a Macanese regionalism also known as “China cracker” or “Chinese rocket”.
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João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues – A Última Vez Que Vi Macau (2012)
2001-2010DocumentaryFilm NoirJoão Rui Guerra da Mata and João Pedro RodriguesPortugalTwo filmmakers leave to Macao in an adventure of discovery of a city-labyrinth, multicultural and mysterious, where the memories of the childhood – featured memories by the lived reality in Macao – have a dialog with the memories of the East built by the codes of the cinema and the literature – memories lived on a featured reality-, creating a testimony which tries to raise the veil on the past and the present time. A personal album of physical and emotional geography, structured as an investigation disguised as a thriller, where the puzzle of the history challenges the reality.Read More »