Gabriel Abrantes

Dear God Please Save Me

Gabriel Abrantes

An archaeologist buries his treasured possessions and commits suicide.

Baby Back Costa Rica

Gabriel Abrantes

Three teenage girls are heading home in their Mini Cooper S. They discuss their boyfriends, their boyfriend's mothers, their boyfriend's mother's cars, and Judaism.

Razor Thin Definition of Punk

Gabriel Abrantes

Two hipsters bicker about what year punk really died.

Um Filme Português

Levi Martins, Vítor Alves

Manuel Mozos, Rita Azevedo Gomes

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

A Brief History of Princess X

Gabriel Abrantes

Joana Barrios, Francisco Cipriano

A look back at the history of Brancusi's futuristic golden bronze phallus "Princess X" that is in fact a bust of Napoleon's incredible great-niece, Marie Bonaparte.

Les extraordinaires mésaventures de la jeune fille de pierre

Gabriel Abrantes

Liza Lapert, Virgil Vernier

Tired of being a banal architectural ornamental, a sculpture runs from the Louvre to confront real life on the streets of Paris.

Freud und Friends

Gabriel Abrantes

Gabriel Abrantes, Sónia Balacó

A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious.

Ennui Ennui

Gabriel Abrantes

Edith Scob, Laetitia Dosch

While the french ambassadress to Afghanistan is in the middle of disarmament negotiations with a Kuchi Nomad tribe, her daughter, Cleo, is Kidnapped by Afghanistan's only female warlord.

Diamantino

Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt

Carloto Cotta, Cleo Tavares

A disgraced soccer star seeks redemption but is exploited by a variety of causes hoping to capitalize on his celebrity.

O Corcunda

Gabriel Abrantes, Ben Rivers

Carloto Cotta, Celia Williams

A delirious sci-fi riff on the Arabian Nights' 'Tale of the Hunchback', that submerges us in a technological dystopia reigned by Dalaya.com, a mega-corporation that forces its employees to 'relax' at company-run medieval reenactments.

Os Humores Artificiais

Gabriel Abrantes

Margarida Lucas, Amanda Rodarte

Using a mix of Hollywood aesthetics with documentary strategies, the film follows a young indigenous girl from the Xingu National Park to São Paulo, where she falls in love with a robot that also happens to be a stand-up comedian. This strange story mixes the anthropology of humor, indigenous communities, and artificial intelligence.

Liberdade

Gabriel Abrantes, Benjamin Crotty

Joelson Da Silva, Dadi Carvalho

Set in the area surrounding the Angolan capital of Luanda, 'Liberdade' follows a young couple, Betty a seductive but domineering Chinese immigrant and Liberdade, a troubled young Angolan. When Betty tries to take the relationship to the next level Liberdade must go beyond his physical and psychological limits.

Taprobana

Gabriel Abrantes

Natxo Checa, Jani Zhao

In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic, and drug addled lifestyle. The film follows the poet, and his lover Dinamene, as he writes his masterpiece, the epic poem "Os Lusiadas." He travels from the cacophony of the Indic jungles, surrounded by allegorical elephants and rhyming macaques, to the frontier of Heaven and Hell, where he is confronted by his fantasy: fame and immortality.

Fratelli

Gabriel Abrantes, Alexandre Melo

Alexandre Melo, Gabriel Abrantes

Gabriel Abrantes and Alexander Melo deconstruct the 1st section of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew as a playful, vibrant ode to bacchanalia, classicism and homoeroticism.

L for Leisure

Whitney Horn, Lev Kalman

Marianna McClellan, Bro Estes

A dreamy, ironic comedy about a generation of hedonistic students in the 1990s. Their favourite activity: talking endlessly. During a series of vacation days filled with sun-drenched naps, squabbling, waterskiing competitions and love-making, the amateur actors discuss their concerns in dry dialogues. For instance, semi-intellectual reflections on the end of time and how Michael Jordan plays basketball.

Olympia I & II

Gabriel Abrantes, Katie Widloski

Katie Widloski, Gabriel Abrantes

This radical diptych recasts Manet's canonical painting as a scandalous psychodrama: in the first part, a prostitute (Katie Widloski) and her brother (Gabriel Abrantes) struggle with their incestuous urges; in the second, a prostitute (Abrantes) copes with her loneliness on a slow night for business.