Ricardo Costa (realizer)

Ricardo Costa (born the January 25th 1940 with Barge) is a producing Réalisateur and Portuguese.

Biography

Ricardo Costa completes its studies in 1967 with the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon where, after having supported a thesis on the novels of Kafka ( Franz Kafka, a writing with back ), it obtains the rank of doctor in letters (1969). He is professor with the Lycée and editor of sociological works, of texts of avant-garde, literature and cinema (Mondar editores). After the Revolution of the eyelets, in April of 1974, he becomes realizer and professional producer. He is partner of the co-operative of cinema GRUPO ZERO, with João César Monteiro, Jorge Silva Mello, Seixas Santos and others. He engages as independent producer with Diafilme, where he produces several of his films and some of other realizers. He is the author of tests on the Cinéma, the Vision and the Langage. He organizes projections and cycles of cinema in Paris (French Cinémathèque and Musée of the Man). Filmed between the limits of the Documentary and the Fiction, Brumas is its last feature film (60e '' Festival of Venice 2003 - New Territories '').

In a certain way allured by the idea which explains a sentence of Marcel Mauss, Anthropologue and Sociologue French, ( There is more poetry in a grain of reality than in all the brains of the poets ), certain scenario writers of Portugal, in particular after the Révolution of the Eyelets, traversed their country from one end to another, camera with the hand. With funds public or in coproduction with RTP (Radio Television of Portugal), some make Cinéma militant, but not deprived of charm, others simply of films where the Réel appears with this mysterious poetic thickness about which Mauss spoke. Films made with little money but in full freedom. The “engaged cinema”, kind which includes the majority of these films, would persist during a few years and would leave important œuvrages or even remarcables, some forgotten meanwhile.

Preceded by Manoel de Oliveira with the Act by spring, these scenario writers are identified thus, not without esthetic concern, by the practice of the visual Anthropologie, such as António Campos, António Reis, João César Monteiro, Ricardo Costa or Pedro Costa.

Enough concerned of its indépendence, Ricardo Costa, him also, it follows this idea rather that the desire to change the world, cultivating a style where the Réel is transfigured in poetic expression, in Portrait, Question mark over a time which escapes time, without letting itself encircle by the place where, filmed, the aforementioned reality appears. The Put in scene, the fictional slope, will be for him a permanent temptation.

Catalog of films

Feature films

1976 : Avieiros - Avieiros , fishermen of Tage
1976: Mau Tempo, Ponds E Mudança - bad weather, tides and changes
1979: Castro Laboreiro - Castro Laboreiro
1979: Pitões, Aldeia C Barroso - Pitões, village of Barroso
1980: Verde por drilled, Vermelho por dentro - Vert outwards, red with the inside
1981: O Pão E O Vinho - bread and the wine
1981: Skirt E has Cidade - ''' Far is the city '''
1981: Ao Fundo desta Estrada - At the end of this road
1985: O Nosso Futebol - Ours football
2003: Brumas - ''' Fogs '''
''' Information ''' on these films (French, English, Portuguese)

Courts and means-measurings

1974 : No Fundo de Tróia (26 ') - At the bottom of Troia
1974: Apanhadores de Algas (28 ') - Attrapeurs of algae
1974: Ágar-Ágar (27 ') - Agar-agar
1975: Tresmalho (27 ') - the Trammel net
1975: O Troll (25 ') - the line
1975: O Arrasto (29 ') - the trawl
1975: Oceanografia Biológica (28 ') - biological Oceanography
1975: Ti Zaragata E has Bateira (27 ') - the uncle Zaragata and his boat
1975: Pesca da Sardinha (29 ') - Fishing with the sardine
1975: Conchinha C Mar (26 ') - Shell of sea
1975: Às vezes custa (27 ') - Parfois it is hard
1975: In Sacada (26 ') - a miraculous fishing
1976: Os Irmãos Severo E bone Cem Polvos (29 ') - the Severo brothers and the hundred octopuses
1976: In Flor C Mar (29 ') - has flower of sea
1976: In Colher (29 ') - the spoon
1976: O Velho E O Novo (28 ') - the old one and new the
1976: In Falta E has Fartura (26 ') - the distress and abundance
1976: Quem só muda of Camisa (28 ') - To change shirt
1976: In Máquina C Dinheiro (28 ') - the machine of the money
1976: Viver C Mar (28 ') - To live sea
1976: Uma Perdiz Na Gaiola (26 ') - a partridge out of cage
1976: Nas Voltas C Rio (30 ') - On the river
1976: O Submarino de Vidro (28 ') - the submarine of glass
1976: Cravos de Abril (40') ''' eyelets of April '''
1977: E C Mar Nasceu (40 ') - Born from the sea
1978: Música C Quotidiano (25 ') - music of the every day
1978: Abril No Minho (50') April in Minho
1979: In Lampreia (6') - the lamprey
1979: With Coke (13') - Holy Georges and the dragon
1979: Histórias de Baçal - ''' Accounts of Baçal '''
1979: Esta aldeia, Rio de Onor ''' This village, Rio de Onor '''
1979: ''' O Pisão ''' (13') - the fulling mill
1979: In Feira (7') - the fair
1979: O Outro Jogo (6') - the other play
1980: Joaquim da Loiça - Joaquim da Loiça
1980: Pastores da Serra da Estrela (8') - Bergers of Tightened da Estrela
1980: Barcos de Peniche (13') - Boats of Barge
1980: O Park Nacional de Montesinho (50') - the National park of Montesinho
1982: Lisboa E O Court Internacional de Direito C Mar (50'). Lisbon and the International court of the right of the sea
''' Information ''' on these films (French, English, Portuguese)

Other kinds

1989 ''' Words ''' -: talks with Jean Rouch . Long version.

2006 ''' Words ''' - talks with Jean Rouch . Version with three episodes and version TV.

External bonds

''' Feature-length films ''' - ''' Short and medium-length films '''
Site on ''' Ricardo Costa '''
Portuguese Cinema with the French Cineclub
a cycle very Portuguese (Cineuropa)
''' the Portuguese cinema ''', article by Jonathan Hachey

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