José Alberto Silva Movies

An omnibus project examining, well, the state of the world.

Previously focused on Asian directors, “Jeonju Digital Project 2007” takes a look at Europe. The Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, the German filmmaker Harun Farocki, and the French filmmaker Eugène Green participated in this project.

O Nosso Homem (Our Man) is a short variation in the line of the trilogy Pedro Costa has devoted to the habitants of the Fontainhas quarter, which has been destroyed in the meantime. It can be considered as a sort of appendix to the third part, Juventude en Marcha (Colossal Youth), in which the...

While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.

Pedro Costa's segment from "O Estado do Mundo".