João Penalva Movies

João Penalva is a portuguese artist internationally acclaimed, who has developped a complex but stimulating persona around multiple aspects of...

Based on Thomas Mann's Der Erwählte (The Chosen One), images are staged superimposed on a fixed shot of a river running through a city, along...

The chronologically oldest work presented here: around Lake Baikal and from another distant location, we follow “the monologue in Russian of a...

"A meditation on sight; what is seen, and what is not seen, and the place of imagination."

Commissioned by Picture This (Bristol), its cinematic language has been described as lying “between that of silent film (with the inclusion of...

Commissioned for the 2007 Berlinale, THE ROAR OF LIONS was filmed during the winter of 2005 on the frozen lake in the Grunewald forest near Berlin,...