Eu S\u00f3 Quero Ser (Aquilo que sou)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI came across the Fronte[i]ras 07 meeting at a turning point of my life. After 10 years without flming and with an almost exclusive dedication to music (although almost always contaminated by cinema and other arts), I bought a video camera and decided to start flming again. In this case, a flm about my father, an anonymous public servant, who recently had died in a car accident. When I read the proposal to refect artistically on the idea of boundaries, I realized that I was \u201cbounding myself\u201d in a way that was contrary to my nature.Raising boundaries in myself, telling myself not to go there, that that is not my territory. But the truth always fnds its ways\u2013if we give it, or rather if we give our selves, attention. \u201cI just want to be who I am\u201d was a phrase that I found in a magnifcent exhibition of Thomas Hirschhorn at Serralves Foundation and wrote down on my notebook along with some new goals for the year 2007. In fact, this phrase sums up a search that I began in my adult hood,when I frst became slightly aware that I needed to dig through many layers of mud in order to get access to my essence. The fnal result was what I called a \u201cLive Poetic Documentary\u201d,a very personal piece hopefully with a universal resonance. A performance about the search for an identity, a house, the meeting between our various selves. On the importance of being aware of what surrounds us, the need for the courage to fnd our truth, the respect for our wishes. And about how being lost is necessary to fnd ourselves, and how can chaos and dreams show us paths. All of this was brought about spontaneously and in an unplanned way and it was born from my improvisation and interaction with the space and the people who surrounded meduring those days. I tried to blur some boundaries between the screen and the live performance, a limitation that I feel when I make more conventional flm-concerts, in which flms were not thought to have live music and where the viewer\u2019s attentionis divided between two separate things. Between planned and improvised, this presentation also tried to tinker with the boundaries between documentary and fction, and between silentand sound flm (part of the flm has sound, another part doesn\u2019t). At the end of the presentation, in Barcelos, obviously the reaction wasn\u2019t unanimous. There were some people who liked and others who disliked it or didn\u2019t know what to say. But I felt better thanever! The one who had been there was really me. And I just want to be who I am. And in Fronte[i]ras 07 I was.\u201d<\/p>\n Born in Lisbon, Ant\u00f3nio Pedro has a degree in sociology and studied music in Drummers Collective,NY, in several jazz schools and with musicians such as Z\u00e9 Eduardo, Nuno Rebelo and John Riley.He is a drummer, percussionist, multi-instrumentist and composes for theatre, video and dance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He has directed the performance ensemble Bigodes Band, inspired by the music of Nino Rota for Fellini\u2019s movies, with whom he performed in several festivals across Portugal, Spain and Belgium. He composed, among others, for Belgian dance companies (Compagnie Le Luxe (\u201cLa raine 27\u201d) and Compagnie Sac a Dos (\u201cMemoires d\u2019une arbe\u201d), for theatre companies (\u201cCarrada de Bestas\u201dfor Teatro Regional da Serra de Montemuro). Presently he directs his mutant project of film-concerts (\u201cD\u00db\u201d) and composes for the feature film \u201c\u00c1guas Mil\u201d directed by the Portuguese filmmaker Ivo Ferreira.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> ARTISTIC WORKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>