Edgar Pêra

Film director

1960 –

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Who is Edgar Pêra?

Edgar Henrique Clemente Pêra is a Portuguese filmmaker, and has done more than one hundred films for cinema, tv, theatre dance, cine-concerts, galleries, internet and other media. He has been considered “the most persistently individualistic Portuguese filmmaker”. Pêra writes occasionally fiction and essays for newspapers and is also a graphic comic artist. Aka Mr. Ego, Man-Kamera, Artur Cyanetto. In 1981 Edgar Pêra was studying Psychology, but switched to Film at the Portuguese National Conservatory, presently Lisbon Theatre and Film School.

Pêra has auto-financed and produced many his own movies, or directed "auteur films" for cultural institutions.

The first phase of Edgar Pêra’s work started in 1984, shooting Portuguese rock bands in a neuro-realist style. Pêra’s first official film was shot in 1988 in the Ruins of Chiado, a neighborhood in the center of Lisbon that suffered a major fire that year. In 1990 Reproduta Interdita is shown at the Portuguese Horror Film Festival, Fantasporto. In 1991 he directs A Cidade de Cassiano /The City of Cassiano, a film about the Portuguese modernist architect Cassiano Branco. He directs his first feature in 1994, Manual de Evasão LX 94/Manual of Evasion, articulating an aesthetic legacy of soviet silent films, with a neuropunk 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.

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Born
Nov 19, 1960
Lisbon
Also known as
  • Edgar Henrique Clemente Pêra
  • Edgar Pera
  • Homem-Kâmara
  • Senhor Ego
Ethnicity
  • Portuguese people
Nationality
  • Portugal
Profession

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on July 23, 2013

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