João Mário Grilo
Portuguese filmmaker
João Mário Lourenço Bagão Grilo (born 8 November 1958) is a Portuguese film director, author and professor, born in Figueira da Foz. He attended economics at the University of Coimbra but dropped out. In 1983, he graduated in sociology at Lisbon's ISCTE and in 1994 earned a Ph.D. in communication sciences from the NOVA University Lisbon. He is a full professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the NOVA University Lisbon, where, among other courses, he teaches Filmology and Film Direction.
His first long feature film won the Georges Sadoul Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Filmography
Maria, 1978-9 (Maria)
A Estrangeira, 1982 (The Foreigner)
O Processo do Rei, 1989 (The King's Trial)
O Fim do Mundo, 1992 (The End of the World)
Saramago: Documentos, 1994 (Saramago: Documents)
Os Olhos da Ásia, 1996 (The Eyes of Asia)
Longe da Vista, 1998 (Out of Sight)
451 Forte, 2000 (451 Forte)
A Falha, 2002 (The Rift)
Prova de Contacto, 2003 (Contact Proof)
O Tapete Voador, 2005 (The Flying Carpet)
Duas Mulheres, 2009 (Two Women)
A Vossa Casa, 2012 (Your Home)
O Grande Auditório - Memorial de uma Obra, 2014
Viagem aos Confins de um Sítio Onde Nunca Estive (on the work of sculptor Rui Chafes), 2014
A Vossa Terra, 2016 (Your Land)
Não Esquecerás, 2016 (You Won't Forget) [short]
Correspondencia íntima, 2021
Writing (selection)
"Monologues du Cinéma (A 'Course in Treatment' de S.M. Eisenstein, 1949)", in Trafic, nr. 100 (Hiver 2016)
Cinema & Filosofia: Compêndio (ed.). Lisboa: Colibri, 2014 (Cinema and Philosophy. A Compedium)
"Propositions for a Gestural Cinema," in H. Gustafsson and A. Gronstad (eds.), Cinema and Agamben. Ethics, Biopolitics, and the Moving Image.
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