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Ricardo Costa is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor Portugais born on 25 january 1940 at Peniche (Portugal)
Ricardo Costa (born 25 January 1940) is a Portuguese film director and producer.
He is the author of essays on cinema, vision and language.
Most of his filmography consists of documentary films, many of them being contaminated by fiction (docufiction and ethnofiction). He uses the techniques of direct cinema, non only as a tool for practising salvage ethnography but also as an instrument which helps him to compose a sober, "musical" and poetic narrative, interesting cinephiles and suitable for common audiences.
Mists, his penultimate film, was selected for the 60th Venice Film Festival (2003) and premiered in New York in 2011. It is the first from a biographic trilogy on time and human wanderings: Faraways. Derivas (Drifts), the second one an autobiographical comedy/docufiction due to be released in 2014, is a portrait of Lisbon drawn through the peregrinations of two unfit venerable brothers across the city.
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In some way moved by the idea that explains one sentence of Marcel Mauss, a well-known French sociologist and anthropologist, ("There is more poetry in a grain of reality than in the brain of a poet"), certain Portuguese film-makers, specially after the Carnation Revolution, traveled around their country, from one end to another, camera in hand. With state funds or in co-production with the national broadcast TV station, the RTP, some made "engaged films" (cinéma engagé, i.e. political cinema), but never with lack of charm, others make films in which reality, as an expression of actual events, appears with that poetical charge, as Mauss refers. Films shot with low budgets, but in full liberty. Films portraying reality, a genre to which all those productions fit, would last for a few years and would generate important or even remarkable works, some of which were forgotten.
Costa, who identifies himself more with that simple idea than with the purpose of changing the world, cultivates a style in which reality turns into poetical expression, into human portrait, into an interrogation point about a time which escapes to Time, without restriction to the place in which such reality, once captured, takes place. The mise en scène, the fictional attraction, will be for him a permanent temptation.
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Birth name Ricardo Costa
Nationality Portugal
Birth 25 january 1940 at Peniche (Portugal)
Death 8 july 2021 (at 81 years)
Nationality Portugal
Birth 25 january 1940 at Peniche (Portugal)
Death 8 july 2021 (at 81 years)
He is the author of essays on cinema, vision and language.
Most of his filmography consists of documentary films, many of them being contaminated by fiction (docufiction and ethnofiction). He uses the techniques of direct cinema, non only as a tool for practising salvage ethnography but also as an instrument which helps him to compose a sober, "musical" and poetic narrative, interesting cinephiles and suitable for common audiences.
Mists, his penultimate film, was selected for the 60th Venice Film Festival (2003) and premiered in New York in 2011. It is the first from a biographic trilogy on time and human wanderings: Faraways. Derivas (Drifts), the second one an autobiographical comedy/docufiction due to be released in 2014, is a portrait of Lisbon drawn through the peregrinations of two unfit venerable brothers across the city.
Biography
Costa completed his studies in 1967 at the Faculty of Arts at the Lisbon University. After submitting a thesis on the novels of Kafka (Franz Kafka: writing in the mirror), he earned a PhD in 1969. He was a high school teacher and owned a company (pt:MONDAR editores), where he published a number of sociological texts and avant-garde papers, literature and cinema. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, he became a filmmaker. He was a partner of Grupo Zero, with other filmmakers like João César Monteiro, Jorge Silva Melo and Alberto Seixas Santos. Later, he became an independent producer with the company Diafilme, where he produced several of his films and some of other directors. He organizes film projections and cycles in Paris (Cinémathèque Française and Musée de l’Homme).
In some way moved by the idea that explains one sentence of Marcel Mauss, a well-known French sociologist and anthropologist, ("There is more poetry in a grain of reality than in the brain of a poet"), certain Portuguese film-makers, specially after the Carnation Revolution, traveled around their country, from one end to another, camera in hand. With state funds or in co-production with the national broadcast TV station, the RTP, some made "engaged films" (cinéma engagé, i.e. political cinema), but never with lack of charm, others make films in which reality, as an expression of actual events, appears with that poetical charge, as Mauss refers. Films shot with low budgets, but in full liberty. Films portraying reality, a genre to which all those productions fit, would last for a few years and would generate important or even remarkable works, some of which were forgotten.
Costa, who identifies himself more with that simple idea than with the purpose of changing the world, cultivates a style in which reality turns into poetical expression, into human portrait, into an interrogation point about a time which escapes to Time, without restriction to the place in which such reality, once captured, takes place. The mise en scène, the fictional attraction, will be for him a permanent temptation.
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Filmography of Ricardo Costa (5 films)
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Drifts (2012)
Directed by Ricardo Costa
Actors Ricardo Costa
Roles Ricardo (le photographe) et son frère Antonio (l'horloger)
« Un portrait de Lisbonne suivant les déambulations de deux frères dépareillés à travers la ville », citation du producteur.
Director
Drifts (2012)
Directed by Ricardo Costa
Actors Ricardo Costa
« Un portrait de Lisbonne suivant les déambulations de deux frères dépareillés à travers la ville », citation du producteur.
Mists (2003)
, 1h18Directed by Ricardo Costa
Origin Portugal
Genres Drama, Documentary
Back to his birthplace (Peniche, a Portuguese fishermen town) more than fifty years after he saw Maria José, who used to be a maid at his parents’ house, when he was a child, the “hero” (the film director) meets her again in the summer of 2011. She is now a mother, grandmother and a great grandmother, with the sea embedded in her soul.
O Pão e o Vinho (1983)
Directed by Ricardo Costa
Genres Documentary
"During an Easter celebration, on a Good Friday, black night, hooded figures dressed with black mantles walk in deep silence, only broken by the noise of a rattle and by the canticles of a young Veronique rising in her hands a sheet with the bloody face of Christ stamped on it. She sings a song of grief and sorrow in an understandable language, telling an old story. The chorus of the hooded men answers to her complaints, echoed by a music band.
Longe é a cidade (1981)
Directed by Ricardo Costa
Origin Portugal
Genres Documentary
The film is part three of the tetralogy Homem Montanhês (Mountain Man). It portrays the inhabitants of a remote village of north-eastern Portugal, in Trás-os-Montes, still keeping secular traditions such as communal cooperation.
Directed by Ricardo Costa
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Actors Adelaide João, Kaneta Kimotsuki, Masako Sugaya
Rating63%
"A middle-aged businessman, a neoliberal, returns to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution to realise the ambitious dream of a banana plantation and help reconstruct the national economy, weakened by the "communists". He fails. He even fails his death, from which he mysteriously escapes. To be continued ?"
Scriptwriter
Drifts (2012)
Directed by Ricardo Costa
Actors Ricardo Costa
« Un portrait de Lisbonne suivant les déambulations de deux frères dépareillés à travers la ville », citation du producteur.
O Pão e o Vinho (1983)
Directed by Ricardo Costa
Genres Documentary
Roles Writer
"During an Easter celebration, on a Good Friday, black night, hooded figures dressed with black mantles walk in deep silence, only broken by the noise of a rattle and by the canticles of a young Veronique rising in her hands a sheet with the bloody face of Christ stamped on it. She sings a song of grief and sorrow in an understandable language, telling an old story. The chorus of the hooded men answers to her complaints, echoed by a music band.
Longe é a cidade (1981)
Directed by Ricardo Costa
Origin Portugal
Genres Documentary
The film is part three of the tetralogy Homem Montanhês (Mountain Man). It portrays the inhabitants of a remote village of north-eastern Portugal, in Trás-os-Montes, still keeping secular traditions such as communal cooperation.
Directed by Ricardo Costa
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Actors Adelaide João, Kaneta Kimotsuki, Masako Sugaya
Rating63%
"A middle-aged businessman, a neoliberal, returns to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution to realise the ambitious dream of a banana plantation and help reconstruct the national economy, weakened by the "communists". He fails. He even fails his death, from which he mysteriously escapes. To be continued ?"
Producer
Drifts (2012)
Directed by Ricardo Costa
Actors Ricardo Costa
Roles Producer
« Un portrait de Lisbonne suivant les déambulations de deux frères dépareillés à travers la ville », citation du producteur.
Editor
Drifts (2012)
Directed by Ricardo Costa
Actors Ricardo Costa
« Un portrait de Lisbonne suivant les déambulations de deux frères dépareillés à travers la ville », citation du producteur.
Longe é a cidade (1981)
Directed by Ricardo Costa
Origin Portugal
Genres Documentary
Roles Editor
The film is part three of the tetralogy Homem Montanhês (Mountain Man). It portrays the inhabitants of a remote village of north-eastern Portugal, in Trás-os-Montes, still keeping secular traditions such as communal cooperation.