Ensaio Sobre o Teatro
Dealing with the work Essay on Blindness' by the Portuguese Nobel Prize Winner José Saramago, Rui Simões directs a long documentary on the creative process of the adapting of this literary work by the Theatre group O Bando up to its opening night, in itself forming an essay on the art of making theatre.
Rui Simões
Director
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Rui Simões
Founded in 1974, O Bando has known how to grow artistically. From an initial project, almost exclusively dedicated to a younger public, it developed the idea of a community theatre where different generation can meet. O Bando tries to find the anthropologic roots of our imaginary and tries to create poetic visual, at a risk accepted by the experimental contemporary art.
A documentary filmed during the shooting of Os Maias - (Alguns) episódios da vida romântica, the cinematic adaptation directed by João Botelho of the homonymous novel by Eça de Queirós. Following the cast in and out of scenes of the period film In-Between Scenes takes on its role as an extension to the history of the Maias family, exposing the lies of cinema, moving in between reality and fiction.
The paths of pain are populated by men and women of all ages, suffering from lack of affection, lack of money, mental problems, alcoholism and drug addiction, or they are simply people who have come to Portugal in search of a life that is a little better. On the other side of this path there is a veritable anthill of volunteers, social welfare workers and different technical assistants who construct and maintain support structures, some of them thinking of better days, and others institutionalising this help without believing that the phenomenon can be cured.
Private Tango is the result of complicity between the interpreters and the camera. The movements initially choreographed adapt and reinvent themselves in an improvisation where the camera also becomes her interpreter.
Recording and editing of the homonym ballet, choreographed by Olga Roriz, for the Companhia Olga Roriz.
How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the company "O Bando" made the experience. The actors lived 24 hours blindfolded in an abandoned hospital. How would you react if you could see again?
Documentary about the Therapeutic Theatre Group of Julio de Matos' Psychiatric Hospital.
Kolá San Jon é Festa di Kau Berdi
