Á Procura do Cabeçudo

Please note that the email address shown at the end of the film is no longer valid. For further info, please email me here. "À Procura do Cabeçudo", is a film with Jorge Alves and Paulo Lameira, filmed in Barreiro, Portugal in 1996 and edited by myself and Anthony Ashton (@eyeforeal) in Sheffield, England, in 2002. Surreal tragic-comedy, filmed over a few nights of mad-creative times, with my 2 best friends acting and with me behind the camera. This short film was created as the result of a boring night of band scouting. I was a gig promoter at the time and went out (with Paulo and Jorge) to check out this band; their practise room was in an old abattoir (slaughterhouse), council owned. The band turned out to be quite boring, so we started looking around in order to amuse ourselves, until we found an old box filled with awesome photographs. Our favourite was a football scene from the 60's, sporting a man with a huge head in the crowd! À Procura do Cabeçudo roughly translates as "Looking for the Man with the Big Head"! One thing lead to another as there was a camera about. Later that night we devised this film and shot the intro to the sound of Naked City's first album. In the next nights all that we did was filming this "masterpiece" and we had a lot of fun doing it. Unfortunately the camera we used was borrowed and disappeared before we managed to get our tape off it. I left Portugal the following year and for years I kept asking my friends about this tape! Until one day I did manage to get the tape back, and took it with me to Sheffield. My good friend Anthony was the catalyst for this project to finally see the light. He had a video editing studio, a Pinnacle Video card and Premiere software. Anthony shared his knowledge and showed me how to use Premiere. The original intro was destroyed so we had to edit what was left into some sort of a film that followed our original ideas. I added music that I wrote in Sheffield years after the filming was done and this is the end result. The idea of adding English subtitles was discussed, but I never got round to doing it. I am still not sure if it would be funny in English, but it is funny (for some) in Portuguese. Enjoy and comment away.

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Film & Animation

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• Barreiro
• Barreiro (city)
• surreal
• comedy
• Comedy Humor
• comédia
• Barreiro Rocks