Eduardo Condorcet

Who is Eduardo Condorcet?

Eduardo Condorcet is an actor, musician, theatre director and film director.

He started working as an actor and musician in 1992 at Lisbon based group Comuna, and in 1995 he graduated in a Cinema specialisation in the Communication Sciences department at the New University of Lisbon.

In the same year he directed his first theatre play and his first fiction film, Jigsaw, a Portuguese-Scottish co-production. In 1997 he was admitted to the Northern School of Film and Television, in Leeds. While in Great Britain, he directed two films Cigarette, a noire-comedy and, in 1998, Sinful, a formal experience dealing with film non-linear narrative. 1998 ended with the direction of another theatre play, Ulysses, based on the original works by Homer.

In 1999, he spent a period of time in Berlin where he directed the films Diagnose, a gruesome dark comedy and Flaschendrehen, a short film about a family hiding the truth from itself. The later won the Arcos Short Film Festival prize for best screenplay, in Santiago, Chile in 2000.

In the Autumn of 1999, Condorcet staged Peter Shaffer’s play Black Comedy for the International Outcast Theatre Group, in Munich. In the same German city, Eduardo and Tom Cunningham designed the CD-ROM Patterns, a pictorial cybernetic journey, based on the work of Wassily Kandinsky.