Vasco Pimentel

Vasco Pimentel

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Biography: Vasco Pimentel is a renowned Portuguese sound engineer and sound designer. He studied music in the National Conservatory, and film at the National School of Theater and Cinema in Lisbon. His professional work spans from being sound designer and sound engineer in film and theater, filmmaker, music composer for theatre and feature length films, as well as visual artist. Since 1979, Vasco Pimentel has been active in more than 130 feature-length films and numerous documentaries and short-films. Some notable projects have been in collaboration with film directors such as Wim Wenders, Raul Ruiz, Werner Schroeter, Samuel Fuller, Vincent Gallo, Fred Kelemen, Robert Kramer, João Cesar Monteiro, Miguel Gomes, and Teresa Villaverde.

Movies

Vazante
Vazante

Brazil 1821. Upon his return to the imposing farmhouse, Antonio, a rich cattle herder, finds out tha...

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John From
John From

Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with ...

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Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller'
Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller'

A 2008 short made in accompaniment with Our Beloved Month of August, documenting Gomes's and his cre...

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Manoel’s Destinies
Manoel’s Destinies

When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fish...

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April Captains
April Captains

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fa...

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Acts of Cinema
Acts of Cinema

Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootin...

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Tabu
Tabu

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relation...

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Fado, Major and Minor
Fado, Major and Minor

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anyth...

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The Jester
The Jester

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in...

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Rending
Rending

A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight....

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Dead Man's Seat
Dead Man's Seat

A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving...

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The Tsugua Diaries
The Tsugua Diaries

Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of...

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Guardian of the Night
Guardian of the Night

With an off-beat sense of humor to match its erratic central character, this original comedy-drama f...

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From Now On
From Now On

Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her invol...

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Grand Tour
Grand Tour

In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden pani...

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