António Campos
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 29, 1922, Leiria, Portugal
- Died
- March 8, 1999
- Movies
- 17
António Campos (29 May 1922 – 8 March 1999) was one of the pioneer filmmakers of visual anthropology in Portugal. Mainly using pure documentary techniques, he shot ethnographic films and tried docufiction. As well as in fictional films, he used the methods of direct cinema to portray the life of ancient human communities (ethnofiction) of his country.
He started making films at the beginning of the sixties, at the same time as John Marshall (US) and Michel Brault (Canada). Without knowing much about Jean Rouch, he followed his steps in an original way.
He integrated a troupe of theater amateurs and worked at a state department office in Leiria. He got a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1961, where he worked between 1970 and 1976, to study cinema in London. He took part in the 20th Century Film Festival, in Kracow, Poland. He was the delegate in Portugal for the International Federation of Art Film and a member of the International Union of Independent Filmmakers (UNICI).
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2009 | We Talk About António Campos | Himself (archive footage) |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1993 | A Tremonha de Cristal | Director |
| 1992 | Cold Land | Screenplay, Director |
| 1979 | Ti Miséria | Director, Screenplay |
| 1978 | Histórias Selvagens | Director, Writer |
| 1976 | Gente da Praia da Vieira | Director |
| 1976 | Paredes Pintadas da Revolução Portuguesa | Director |
| 1975 | A Festa | Director |
| 1974 | Falamos de Rio de Onor | Writer, Producer, Director |
| 1971 | Vilarinho das Furnas | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1967 | Chagall - Breve a Lua, Lua Cheia, Virá Aparecer | Director |
| 1966 | The Invention of Love | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 1965 | Retratos dos das Margens do Rio Lis | Director |
| 1961 | A Almadraba Atuneira | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 1960 | Leiria 1960 | Director |
| 1959 | The Lord | Director, Writer |
| 1958 | Um Tesoiro | Director |
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