Rui Simões
Rui Simões | |
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| Born | Rui Simões 20 March 1944 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Occupations | Director, teacher |
| Years active | 1975–present |
Rui Simões (born Lisbon, 20 March 1944) is a Portuguese film director, who is known for his practice of historical documentary, seen as Cinema Militante, for political intervention, and also for directing video documentaries and recordings of theater and dance performances.
Biography
[edit]After finishing his secondary education, and later attending a course in ballet at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, he left the country in 1966 to avoid military service and mobilization for the Portuguese Colonial War. He settled in Paris and later in Brussels, where he attended the École Ouvriére Supérieure and a course in History at the Université libre de Bruxelles. In 1970 he was a student in the Film and Television Directing course at the IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Brussels).
He returned to Portugal after the April 1974 Carnation Revolution. He worked for António da Cunha Telles's company Animatógrafo as a production manager. He taught training courses for several institutions, such as the Núcleo de Cineastas Independentes, higher schools of education, the Quaser-Centro, the Academia de Artes e Tecnologias, the NOVA University of Lisbon, and Independente University in Lisbon. He also lectured in the United States of America, at Harvard University's Carpenter Center, Cornell University's Department of History and Anthropology, and at the University of California, Berkeley's Pacific Films Archives.
Realficção Production Company
[edit]Rui Simões is responsible for the production company Realficção (Lisboa), where he also develops audiovisual and multimedia teaching activities. The business dedicates itself not only to producing his own works, but also those of directories who are concerned with social injustices for disfavored or marginal groups, both in Portugal and in former Portuguese colonies.[1][2][3][4]
Filmography
[edit]Feature-Length Films
[edit]- 1976 – Deus, Pátria, Autoridade (God, Homeland, Authority)
- 1980 – Bom Povo Português (Good Portuguese People)
- 2006 – Ensaio sobre o Teatro (Essay on Theatre)[5]
- 2009 – Ruas da Amargura (Streets of Bitterness)[6]
- 2010 – Ilha da Cova da Moura (Cova da Moura Island)
- 2014 – Guerra ou Paz (War or Peace)[7][8][9]
Short films
[edit]- 1976 – São Pedro da Cova (in three short films)[10]
Vídeos
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ As propriedades revolucionárias das imagens em movimento. A propósito de alguns filmes de Rui Simões realizados em Portugal – article by Mickaël Robert-Gonçalves, Comunicação & Inovação, São Caetano do Sul, v. 14, n. 27:(3-9) jul-dez 2013
- ↑ Entrevista ao realizador Rui Simões (38 min.) na Stv Moçambique about an exhibition of films in Mozambique (Maputo and Inhambane) in November 2015
- ↑ Episódio 30 do magazine Rumos on RTP África dedicated to Lusophone cultures (Rumos)
- ↑ Cruzamentos cinematográficos – exhibition of Rui Simões's films in Mozambique, 18–28 November 2015 — article in ICA
- ↑ 'Ensaio sobre Teatro' na Cinemateca – article by Elisabete França in the Diário de Notícias, 13 November 2006
- ↑ Ruas da amargura – documentary on the homeless, 2007 (111 min.). Exhibited in the Cineclube de Viseu, February 2011
- ↑ Guerra ou Paz – article in Cinecartaz, in the newspaper Público
- ↑ Guerra ou Paz – article in Guerra ou Paz, 3 March 2017
- ↑ Guerra ou Paz on the Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc) homepage.
- ↑ São Pedro da Cova, a revolução e o cinema, 40 anos depois ("São Pedro da Cova, the Revolution and the Film, 40 years later") — article by Abel Coentrão no jornal Público, 21 de abril 2017
External links
[edit]- Real Ficção – business site
- Rui Simões – Producer's site
- Rui Simões – biographical note in CARGO
- Filmes do 25 de Abril – article in UZI (magazine)
- A Revolução de 74 pela imagem: entre o cinema e a televisão – article by José Filipe Costa (UBI)
- Rui Simões, o realizador que foi «empurrado» para o documentário – interview with Rui Simões in SAPO (cinema)
- Palavras em movimento: testemunho vivo do património cinematográfico – project developed by Raquel Rato in an article written as part of the partnership between the History Laboratory of the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at NOVA University of Lisbon, with the coordination of Ana Paula Pires, Luísa Metelo Seixas, Ricardo Castro and Susana Domingues.
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