Amarante Abramovici
Directing
Biography
Filmmaker with a degree in directing from La Femis, Paris. Graduated from the University of Paris III, Sorbonne. She was selected for the Cannes Film Festival - Cinéfondation section, with Gaia (2004) and for the Cinéma du Réel, with Circa Me (2002). She has made films in collaboration, such as The Culture of Capital (2003) or Travelling 70′-76′ (2007). Between 2005 and 2013 she collaborated with the Serralves Museum. She programs film sessions and cycles in alternative venues in Porto, and collaborates in educational projects focusing on cinema. She has taught Cinema and Video at FEUP, Universidade Lusófona do Porto, FAUP and ESAP, and is currently a PhD student researching amateur cinema produced during the Portuguese revolution.
Known For
A dreamlike journey seen through the eyes of a trans-human as well as a kino-symphony of voices from the multiple personas of Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon Revisited shows alternative ways of looking at and hearing the city. Celebrating its greatest phantom and confronting his ambiguous and pervasive sexuality, the film is spoken in the three languages in which Pessoa wrote, Portuguese, English and French.
Lisbon Revisited
A film motivated by anger at the frivolity with which sex is treated in cinema. On the aquarium screen, an attempt is made to materialize thought.
Antes de amanhã
Portrait of Richard Kenigsman by Boris Lehman.
Alterations and Repairs
In the childhood circus, time stops for a last dance under the big top. Juggle with the images, the memories, the dreams, the fears, the desires and the stories that we tell ourselves before we fall asleep.
Circa Me
A film by Amarante Abramovici
Junho
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Residência
A diary/essay, a journey dreamt up by places I've been and people who inhabit me, judgments fired in various directions.
Música de Câmara
A journey through the Portuguese Ongoing Revolutionary Process