Luís Vieira Campos
Directing
Biography
Luís Vieira Campos was born in Porto in 1964. He graduated in Film and Video from ESAP - Escola Superior Artística do Porto in 1989 and was a trainee director for Manoel de Oliveira on the shoot for the film Divina Comédia. He worked for RTP - Radiotelevisão Portuguesa as an Image Control Operator and was a member of the staff of Socivídeo and Alfândega Filmes, where he produced and directed a wide range of promotional and institutional films. He has been a trainer in Audiovisual and Multimedia Production at the Escola das Artes - Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Alquimia da Côr and Instituto Multimédia, among others. He was Film Programmer at the Studio Room of the TCA - Teatro do Campo Alegre, in Porto. In 2008 he founded Filmes Liberdade.
Known For
A widow, a corpse, an undertaker, a young woman in a family way. Life and death meet in a funeral procession down a stairwell.
Quando Eu Morrer
Everything came up with this defiant idea: what if a director followed the first person to come through the door of his house? Luís Vieira Campos did this and found Geni, a strong woman who dreamt of opening her own store at Centro Comercial de Cedofeita, a mythical place of Porto. Between advances and retreats, between the increasing opening of the director and his character, the film reveals the unique portrait of a woman, a neighbourhood - Cedofeita - and the improbable relationships we establish when we least expect it. Luís Vieira Campos proves, with Geni, that cinema is also the "neighbourhood" and its people.
Geni
A woman has just confessed and the Priest forgives her sins. She prays several Our Fathers without stopping, in continuous rotation. She is a beautiful woman, attractive and also, in her kneeling legs, we see that she only has one shoe, just one, the other is missing. We seek after the beautiful woman's missing shoe.
One Shoe
Filmed in one of the remaining social housing towers of Aleixo (Porto, Portugal), “Bicicleta” tells the story of a family living under economic pressure.
Bicicleta
At the end of a long journey, certain people acquire the ability to fly out from earth. For this they need the help of João, whose task is to get them to the precise point of departure and explain their disappearance from planet earth.
aDeus
Francisco visits his wife, who is being held in a prison; it's an Intimate Visit. Dia de Visita is a short fiction film and was shot at the Special EP in Santa Cruz do Bispo.
Dia de Visita
In 1987, the directors of this film were students of cinema in Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Artístico Árvore I, current ESAP-Escola Superior Artística do Porto. While in their first year of studies, they decided to invite Henrique Alves Costa, a scholar of Portuguese cinema and historical manager of Porto’s Cineclube, to guide them on a visit to Invicta Film (1917-1928), the first major Portuguese film producer. In another epoch, in Porto of the 80s, the shooting recorded this wandering by the former studios of Invicta and also by Quinta da Prelada, whose exteriors served as setting for Frei Bonifácio (1918) – film directed by Georges Pallu. Memórias (Memories) is released 34 years later of these shootings with Henrique Alves Costa.