Master Classes
Telling Stories - a Master Class on Criativity and Imagination
Filipe Melo - jazz musician, director, scriptwriter and film producer - intends to show how an idea is developed and how it is possible to transform it into a real project.
Appealing to Visual Art and Music students he proposes an informal conversation about the creativity manifestations and his self processing in all his projects. From the first Portuguese zombie film I’ll see you in my dreams till the TV series Um Mundo Catita or, more recently, his incursion through the Comics world. Besides his film projects he is also a consecrated jazz musician.
Invoking his experience in both different but complementary activities, he will highlight the importance of imagination and self involvement which are necessary when interpreting or executing an idea.
Thursday, November 26th, 2009, 16h00
M'Ar de Ar Aqueduto Hotel (Rua Candido dos Reis, 72)
Filipe Melo
Born in Lisbon in 1977, Filipe Melo was arrested and interrogated at age of 15 for computer piracy. When decide to play the piano. Soon he became interested in jazz and improvisation . Since then his life is devoted to music and cinema and he has played with most Portuguese jazz musicians. He studied at the Portuguese Hotclub and at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He won the Villas-Boas prize and the revelation prize of the JazzPortugal site. He is also a teacher and arranger having worked or played with musicians and groups as Donald Harrison Jr., Jesse Davis, Sheila Jordan, Paulinho Braga, Swingle Singers, Martin Taylor, Perico Sambeat, Herb Geller, Hotclub Jazz Orchestra and Metropolitan Orchestra among others. He worked as ã pianist and arranger for the fado singer Camané in a show at the S. Luiz Theatre called Outras Canções II. He has more than 12 records either as main character or in collaboration with others.
His hobby and biggest passion is cinema; in 2003 he founds O Pato Profissional Lda., a producer consigned to the fantastic cinema. He produced, wrote and directed several cult projects: I’ll See You in My Dreams winner of the FANTASPORTO 2004 and 12 international prizes and Um Mundo Catita, a TV series exhibited in RTP. Presently he is preparing As aventuras de Dog mendonça e Pizzaboy a new Project in the Comics universe with the edition predicted fot the beginning of 2010. He also directed several video clips and documentaries. Today he’s a direction member at the Portuguese Hotclub.
He teaches Piano and Harmony at the University of Évora and Lusíada University and keeps his agenda busy playing with different groups and preparing new film and music projects and an incursion through the Comics world.
Ken Russell by himself
Ken Russell is a natural born creator. His career and films, his approach to reality and his answer to the critic that he’s very operatic are symptomatic: ““Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn’t for most people, but I am not interested. There’s too much of it about.”
We invited Ken Russell to allow us to enter his universe: walking together throughout his memories, his projects and his films look retrospectively to a wide and full career.
From his first films of the super8 and free cinema short documentaries that opened the doors to BBC, to Boudica Bites Back totally shot in HD and using CGI and SFX. The enfant terrible of the British and worldwide cinema is still working at the age of 82. Even if his television work is not much known outside the UK, he always had a strong impact in the development of the TV fiction narrative. His style and approach to historical characters as composers, poets and dancers, pushing to the to the limits of imagination involved much of his work in strong controversy.
From the work for the BBC, full of masterpieces, we highlight his works in the series MONITOR focusing the life and work of contemporary artists. It was a remarkable series at the 60s. Thus, maybe the more marking episodes are Elgar (1962) and Debussy (1965). In cinema, to underline the feature films he directed and that we present at the Festival – WOMEN IN LOVE, and TOMMY with the The Who. The first, having nominations for the Academy Awards in several categories including the Oscar for the best director. The second, because it virtually refunded the musical video bases as we know it today.
All his work is marked by controversy – but also by innovation – as he always pushed the audiovisual narrative to the limit. He keeps working in television, opera stage direction and video clips. For the last years he has been developing interesting works seminars cinema students.
Friday, November 27th, 2009, 16h00
M'Ar de Ar Aqueduto Hotel (Rua Candido dos Reis, 72)
Filipe Lopes
Filipe Lopes was born in Leiria in the 17th October, 1973. Graduated in Social Research he was sub-director and co-founder of the Cinema Magazine Primeiras Imagens: 1998-1999 and 2000-2003 when its edition ended. He always was a passionate for cinema and collaborated in several publications as the magazines PREMIÉRE, CINEMA and UMBIGO among others with cinema and culture related texts. He was a jury in several festivals: Caminhos do Cinema Português – Coimbra; Cinanima - Espinho International Animation Cinema Festival; FIKE – Évora International Short-film Festival; Fantasporto – Oporto International Film Festival; FEST – Espinho International Young Film and Video Festival, OVARVIDEO – Ovar Video Festival. He presented several film shows among which we highlight the cycle Cinema Cru focused in fantastic and horror films and organized by the University of Beira Interior together with the local Film Society, and the Cycle dedicated to Stanley Kubrick and organized by the Évora Film Society where he was a guest speaker on the subject Kubrick, Um Olhar – a Técnica e a Forma (Kubrick, a Look – the Technique and the Form). He participated in several radio and TV shows as a commentator and film reviewer. Presently he works in the Portuguese Film Archive – Cinema Museum at the ANIM – National Moving Image Archive. He is also a freelance journalist and writes for the cinema online magazine TAKE.
November 23rd to December 1st, 2009
FIKE 2009 - 8th Évora International Short Film Festival
Páteo do Salema, n.º 7 - A
7000 - 818 Évora
PORTUGAL
Tel./Fax: +351 266 703137
e-mail: fike@fikeonline.net
