Pedro Paiva

Place of birth:: Portugal:
Biography:: Joao Maria Gusmao b. 1979, Pedro Paiva b. 1977. Live and work in Lisbon. The Portuguese artists Joao Maria Gusmao and Pedro Paiva have collaborated since 2001 on creating objects, installations and 16mm and 35mm short films. The duo describe their overall project as a kind of “recreational metaphysics,” a genre that to a certain extent they themselves have re-invented following the Portuguese poet Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa) on his layered aesthetical modern experiment on materialism. The short films depict staged episodes and sequences of pseudo-scientific experiments with both poetical and comical consequences. In recent years Gusmao and Paiva’s production has centered on the idea of movement and duration, both within the cinematographic vocabulary, with references to early film pioneers as Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey, and through the artists’ own practical experiments and conceptual invention.

Credits

	A Moeda-Viva Director
	A Moeda-Viva Editor
	Sleeping Flamingo Director
	Salto no Vazio Cinematography
	Weil ich dich liebe Gaffer
	Chopping Fruits and Vegetables Director
	Sleeping in a Bullet Train Director
	Pipe Director
	Motorcycle, Bike and Human Dots Director
	Glossolalia Director
	Papagaio (Djambi) Director
	Onça Geométrica Director
	Triangles and Squares Director
	Three Albinos Telling Jokes by the Fireplace Director
	Proboscis Director
	Water mill Director
	Placing the Fisheye Director
	Those Animals That, at a Distance, Resemble Flies Director
	Rodas Director
	Turtle Director
	Donkey Director
	Under a car Director
	Benguelino Casting a Spell on the Camera Director
	Wave Director
	Solar, the Blindman Eating a Papaya Director
	Bread, Tea and Bao Game Director
	Cowfish Director
	The Horse of the Prophet Director
	Getting into bed Director
	Dream of a Ray Fish Director
	O Último Voo do Flamingo Electrician
	Spaghetti Tornado Director
	Pot Smaller than Pot Director
	Cassowary Director
	3 Sóis Director
	Ventriloquismo Director
	A Coluna de Colombo Director
	Hand Smaller than Hand Director
	Tarciso’s Analogy Director
	Hairy Stone Director
	Fruit Polyhedron Director
	The Soup Director
	Meteoritica Director
	The Initiate Director
	Fried Egg Director
	The Human Torch Director
	Eye Eclipse Director