Films by Paulo Ferreira-Lopes

2020, 37 min
by Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, Hartmut Jahn

When we go down Chiado, the old cistern of Lisbon, which has been drained for several years, opens for us. When Antonio leads us to this place, we know where to invite Ricardo Ribeiro, the fado star. Ricardo Ribeiro has just released his new CD and leads us to his sound world between the promotion events. We start with the fado leitmotif – and with his guitar and voice, we experience a musical journey through Africa, the Arab world, flamenco, and other influences that have shaped his fado.

2020, 15 min
by Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, Hartmut Jahn, Jeremias Witteler, Jan Glueck, Aaron Soltani, Nils Schmidt, Simone Pfeiffer-Bohnenkamp, Tajana Neuhaus, Seweryn Zelazny, Arne Hertstein, Veronika Bolotina, Maria Madalena Salgueira, Catarina Soeiro, Morto Camara, Joao Palmeira

The pandemic lockdown as a reaction to a virus that had imposed and still imposes performance bans, especially in the areas of culture, music and fine art, necessitated a humanistic reaction that deals with the individual creative handling of documentary material - multifaceted, multi-perspective, collaborative.An international group was formed from Mexico-City via Lisbon, Mainz to Macao, whose members produced short facets from May 2020, which will be supplemented with further sequences over ti