EQUATION
Tiago Pereira
Com Eduardo Vinhas e o Colectivo SophieMarie
PT
VISUALS/MUSIC/PERFORMANCE

Praça 1º de Maio, Évora
30th September, 10PM
All ages

Free entrance

Tiago Pereira – visualist
Eduardo Vinhas – musician
Colectivo SophieMarie - performance


The “UFO of Portuguese cinema”, Tiago Pereira, with the musician Eduardo Vinhas, and the Colectivo SophieMarie, will land at the Festival Escrita na Paisagem’s closing to present Equação (Equation). We celebrate, at the same time, the Festival’s core concept – the bond it keeps with the landscape of Alentejo – and this year’s main theme, re:play, with a work that beautifully bridges and synthesizes both this aspects.

With Equation, a multimedia concert based on a non-linear narrative on musings and traditons, Pereira, Vinhas and SophieMarie approach the immaterial patrimony of the region of Alentejo, re:inventing it by means of a creative montage, overlapping and juxtaposing thoughts, registers, audiovisual documentation, legends, tales, ritual practices and soundscapes related to the female archetype present in Alentejo’s musical traditions. These materials and concepts are re:organized and re:considered in articulation with contemporaneity, materializing it in a sensorial and transdisciplinary show. A post-cinematic experience that spreads out the language of visuals in real-time, strengthening possibilities of re:actualizing the past. 

Through this concert the Festival re:states, at its closing, the perspective from which we have chosen to real and write in landscape in 2010: re:play – re:petition, re:invention, and re:creation as the core of artistic contemporary creation. 

Tiago Pereira was born in Lisboa. The 80s crossed his youth, which he spent in the urban-popular neighborhood of Bairro Alto (Lisbon). His work is characterized by a peculiar approach to Portuguese oral tradition: he re:collects to re:create, to deconstruct, instead of presenting mere re:productions. His mission is, above all, to contribute toward an “education of memory”, because “people are uneducated in what concerns recollecting and having memory, and it is necessary to teach people how to recollect, and nurture the bug of recollecting their things, instead of being ashamed of their hometown and the sites where they were brought up.” Tiago Pereira engages in the mission of freeing tradition, preserving it without harming it. “Oral tradition means to communicate ones living experiences, passing it from generation to generation, spreading it, widening it, and achieving infinite combinations.”

In 1998, the region Alentejo challenged him to create his first musical video-documentary “Quem canta seus males espanta” (Those who sing put their sorrow away), and from there he started developing work on rurality. And he does not stop: in 1998 he received the prize for Best Director at the Encontros de Cinema Documental (Encounters of Documentary Cinema) at Malaposta; in 2003 he was awarded with the Great Prize of the Jury at the Ovarvídeo; in 2006, he wins the Tóbis Great Prize for the Best Portuguese Short Film at Doc Lisboa; in 2007 he receives the award for the Best Ethnographic Film at the Dialektus Festival, in Budapest. Along all this, it should also be mentioned that Tiago Pereira has been often selected to take part in European festivals, and he collaborated in a variety of other projects, from animation to children to Live Acts.

Eduardo Vinhas, is one of the three co-partners of Golden Poney Studio, which he shares with João Osório and Rodrigo Alfacinha. He is also one of the two memebers of the duo Musgo, in which Alfacinha also takes part. During the last decade, Vinhas and Alfacinha have been playing music together – first inde-rock, and more recently, electroacustic music. 

Eduardo Vinhas has been colaborating Tiago Pereira in various of his multimédia projects; the most recent of these was Fireworks, presented on April 24th 2010, Casa da Música, in OPorto.

Colectivo SophieMarie brings together Sophie Pinto, Filipa Leão, and Vanda Cerejo, three actresses who got their BA in 2007 at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema de Lisboa. Their most recent creation, Ensaio Paralelo (Parallel Rehearsal), is based on one single rule: the two actresses that integrate the plot must rehearse separately, meeting only at the end of the process. This work was presente at Espaço Nimas, in Lisbon.