João Pedro Rodrigues

Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After

From our window one can see a set of the film The Green Years, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963. This was our starting point: guided by Rocha's gaze, we look back at the places of that film. The successive geological, urbanistic and social strata of Lisbon, besieged by the pandemic that interrupted the shooting, are drawn out in front of our camera, like a contemporary jazz impro from a score written in 1963.

The Last Time I Saw Macao

A filmmaker returns to Macao, China, to help a friend who is in trouble.

As the Flames Rose

On the phone in his dark bedroom, a man relives the end of a turbulent affair, while across town, the city burns.

The Ornithologist

Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, an ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.

Here in Lisbon

Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about being different, sarcastic, welcoming to foreigners even in an economic crisis. Different directors became fascinated by our strangeness. We became fascinated by these directors. The city is never the same in these four episodes, here in Lisbon.

Mahjong

Varziela, Vila do Conde, the biggest Chinatown in Portugal. A man wearing a hat and a missing woman. A high-heeled shoe, a blond wig and a Chinese dress. The confrontation between the East Wind and the Red Dragon; the cardinal points switched as in an ultimate Mahjong game.

Where Do You Stand Now, João Pedro Rodrigues?

João Pedro Rodrigues answers the question from the title with an autobiographical short-film.

Camouflage Self-Portrait

A Portuguese Film

A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.