Vasco Pimentel
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.
Tabu
as Demonstration Spokesman / Pool House OwnerLisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar...
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April Captains
as Crowd JournalistStory of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued...
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The Tsugua Diaries
as uncreditedCrista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The...
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John From
as Sr. PimentelRita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights...
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Vazante
as PadreBrazil 1821. Upon his return to the imposing farmhouse, Antonio, a rich cattle herder, finds out...
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Guardian of the Night
as L'homme hold-upWith an off-beat sense of humor to match its erratic central character, this original...
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Rending
as Secretary ChiefA philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.
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Fado, Major and Minor
as CustomerPierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize...
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Acts of Cinema
as uncreditedCinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of...
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Manoel’s Destinies
as ProfessorWhen the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified...
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Dead Man's Seat
as uncreditedA newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly...
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Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller'
as uncreditedA 2008 short made in accompaniment with Our Beloved Month of August, documenting Gomes's and his...
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