Fundo de Apoio ao Cinema works as an additional resource of financing in Portugal. For the third consecutive year, this initiative of Associação Cultural IndieLisboa supports pr...
Fundo de Apoio ao Cinema works as an additional resource of financing in Portugal. For the third consecutive year, this initiative of Associação Cultural IndieLisboa supports projects of new filmmakers.
Precária by Ico Costa, O Mar enrola na Areia by Catarina Mourão, O Campo à Beira Mar by André Ruivo and an unnamed project by Carlos Conceição were the winners of this years’ edition.
Nonetheless, due to the project's quality, the jury decided that Nos Interstícios da Realidade : O Cinema de António de Macedo by João Monteiro would be supported with a crowdfunding campaign at PPL.
NOS INTERSTÍCIOS DA REALIDADE
Director: João Monteiro
Screenplay: João Monteiro
Production: João Figueiras, Blackmaria
Documentary, Feature
Do you know the architect António de Macedo, the most prolific director of the “Portuguese New Cinema” generation? The movement that he helped to create with the film “Domingo à Tarde”?
The daring aesthetics of “A Promessa” by Bernardo Santareno, as a western, and its public success would create a permanent rift between António de Macedo and the critics. Interested in exploring the technological possibilities of the film medium and developing work in the fantastic realm, his body of work is difficult to pinpoint amidst the portuguese cinema. He fought against the censorship both before and after the portuguese revolution, when the catholic church tried to block the premiere of “As Horas de Maria”. This episode would establish this “profane” work as one of the most polemic portuguese films of all times.
He would later experiment with esoteric allegory in “O Princípio da Sabedoria” the supernatural in “Os Abismos da Meia-Noite” and science fiction in “Os Emissários de Khalôm”. His films were received with enthusiasm by the Portuguese audience but destroyed by the critics.
Due to the lack of state funds for his films, he stopped filming during the 90s.
This is one of the stories of Portuguese cinema that is urgent to tell.
