Pedro Paiva

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.

Directed

1. Three Albinos Telling Jokes by the Fireplace (2013) — Director
2. Placing the Fisheye (2012) — Director
3. Eye Eclipse (2007) — Director
4. The Initiate (2008) — Director
5. Those Animals That, at a Distance, Resemble Flies (2012) — Director
6. Fried Egg (2008) — Director
7. Dream of a Ray Fish (2011) — Director
8. Bread, Tea and Bao Game (2011) — Director
9. Proboscis (2013) — Director
10. The Soup (2009) — Director
11. Triangles and Squares (2013) — Director
12. Cassowary (2010) — Director
13. Chopping Fruits and Vegetables (2016) — Director
14. Wheels (2011) — Director
15. Papagaio (Djambi) (2014) — Director
16. Meteoritica (2008) — Director
17. A Moeda-Viva (2024) — Director
18. Solar, the Blindman Eating a Papaya (2011) — Director
19. Benguelino Casting a Spell on the Camera (2011) — Director
20. The Human Torch (2007) — Director
21. Hand Smaller than Hand (2009) — Director
22. The Horse of the Prophet (2011) — Director
23. Getting into bed (2011) — Director
24. Sleeping Flamingo (2018) — Director
25. 3 Sóis (2009) — Director
26. Ventriloquismo (2009) — Director
27. A Coluna de Colombo (2009) — Director
28. Pot Smaller than Pot (2010) — Director
29. Sleeping in a Bullet Train (2015) — Director
30. Water mill (2012) — Director
31. Cowfish (2011) — Director
32. Tarciso’s Analogy (2009) — Director
33. Hairy Stone (2009) — Director
34. Fruit Polyhedron (2009) — Director
35. Turtle (2011) — Director
36. Pipe (2014) — Director
37. Motorcycle, Bike and Human Dots (2014) — Director
38. Glossolalia (2014) — Director
39. Spaghetti Tornado (2010) — Director
40. Donkey (2011) — Director