Born in 1958. Directing since 1978. His commitment to cinema has always been defined by the connection and passages between real, fiction and imaginary and, for that reason, his filmography includes fiction titles inspired by real events, such as The King’s Trial, The End of the World, The Eyes of Asia, Out of Sight, and documentaries devoted to the relationship between cinema and the “fictions” of other arts: Saramago-Documents, Proof of Contact and The Flying Carpet. João Mário has split his time between directing and teaching for many years now. As a Full Professor, he teaches a Film Directing seminar and coordinates the new PhD in Artistic Studies, the PhD in Digital Media and MA in Film/Television at the Nova University of Lisbon. He has published extensively on cinema and contemporary art in Portugal and abroad (namely in Traffic magazine). He is author of several books: The Order in Cinema (1997), The Lessons of Cinema (2006), The Cinema of Non-Illusion (2006), The Imagined Man (2006), The Book of Images (2007), Film & Philosophy: Mapping an Encounter (2014), a collective compendium on the subject, co-organized with Irene Aparício, which was part of the research project with the same name he directed for the Foundation of Science and Technology, between 2009 and 2012.
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