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some films by Emanuel Pimenta
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title: AS TIME GOES BY

date: 2011

site: http://www.emanuelpimenta.net/astimegoesby.html

description: As Time Goes By is a movie and a concert created by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta in 2011. Both of them deal with time and memory - short and long term memories. The original works last 40 minutes. As Time Goes By had the world premières at the Abstracta International Film Festval, in Rome, Italy, in 2011. The second movement of the movie works on more than twenty thousand daily images of a family, in Europe, over more than twenty years.

video art


title: CANTO 6409

date: 2009

site: http://www.asa-art.com/CANTO6409.html

description: CANTO 6409 is a concert for a project together with the Italian filmmaker Dino Viani, who was responsible for the movie with the same title on the 2009 earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy. The world première of both music and film happened at the International Film Festival of Cannes, France, in 2009. The event was made in honor and benefit of the victims of the terrible earthquake. The film linked bellow is not Dino Viani's movie but a short film exclusively on the virtual musical score. The musical composition was created using dynamic layers of sounds, impacting each other, in a certain sense like the layers of earth in a seismic event.

digital animation | virtual music score


title: SETI

date: 2008

site: http://www.asa-art.com/seti2008.html    and: http://www.asa-art.com/eif/1.html

description: SETI is a concert composed by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta in 2002, using extraterrestrial sounds. The world première happened at the International Underground Film Festival of Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2002. SETI was also performed at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York City, in 2003. Then, it was projected a movie made with the virtual music score. In 2008, Emanuel Pimenta ellaborated the SETI movie, here presented, using images from the Universe captured by NASA. SETI is dedicated to Francesco Mariotti.

concert and experimental movie


title: DANTE - Hell

date: 2008

site: http://www.emanuelpimenta.net/dante.html

description: DANTE is an electronic opera by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, based on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Divided in three movements - hell, purgatory and paradise - the opera was created in 2008. Here, you can see a fragment of the movie that was generated by the opera. See the site above for more information.

electronic opera


title: DANTE - Purgatory

date: 2008

site: http://www.emanuelpimenta.net/dante.html

description: DANTE is an electronic opera by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, based on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Divided in three movements - hell, purgatory and paradise - the opera was created in 2008. Here, you can see a fragment of the movie that was generated by the opera. See the site above for more information.

electronic opera


title: DANTE - Paradise

date: 2008

site: http://www.emanuelpimenta.net/dante.html

description: DANTE is an electronic opera by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, based on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Divided in three movements - hell, purgatory and paradise - the opera was created in 2008. Here, you can see a fragment of the movie that was generated by the opera. See the site above for more information.

electronic opera


title: Leonardo in Locarno

date: 2007

site: http://www.asa-art.com/leonardo.html

description: Contemporary music seven day concert to celebrate 500 years of the only extant building designed by Leonardo da Vinci, in Locarno, Switzerland.

digital animation | virtual music score


title: Time Design Museum

date: 2006

site: http://www.asa-art.com/facto/mdtt/1.html

description: Architectural project for a museum dedicated to the reflection on time, in Trancoso, Portugal.

digital animation | architecture


title: AMORES - A Floating Island for Lisbon

date: 2005

site: http://www.asa-art.com/amores.html

description: A dynamic deprogrammable island for Lisbon. Integrated in the Great Estuary Project, this unexpected project joins is a transdisciplinary project.

digital animation | architecture


title: Deep Ocean

date: 2005

site: http://www.asa-art.com/ocean/1.html

description: Contemporary music concert at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland - dedicated to René Berger. All sounds were recorded in deep oceanic sites, by NOOA.

digital animation | virtual music score


title: Zyklus

date: 2005

site: http://www.asa-art.com/z/z.html

description: Fifteen day contemporary music concert in memory of Rinaldo Bianda. The concert was performed in Locarno, Switzerland.

digital animation | virtual music score


title: Floating Art Centre

date: 2004

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description: Experimental architectural project for the Lake Maggiore, Switzerland, near Locarno.

digital animation | architecture


title: Olivestone

date: 2001

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description: Concert by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta in the medieval village of Bolognano, Abruzzo, Italy, August 2001. The concert is an improvisation on the first movement of his composition titled Olivestone, which is the soundtrack of a movie on Joseph Beuys, dated of 1999. The first and third movements of this concert are oriented to improvisation. It is one of his rare appearances as flutist. Normally, Pimenta appears as composer and dealing with electronic music. Also, this performance shows a different and rare aspect of Pimenta's works on music.

musical concert


title: Janus

date: 1996

site: http://www.asa-art.com/janus.htm

description: Computer Art installation at the CyberArt Festival, in Lisbon, Portugal.

film of the installation


title: Alice

date: 1994

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description: Short digital animation film.

digital animation


title: WOIKSED

date: 1992

site: http://www.asa-art.com/woiksed/w.htm

description: A virtual planet created between 1980 and 1995. The film is dated of 1992. In 1993, it won the Lake Maggiore Prize by UNESCO, the Council of Europe, AIVAC and the Lombardia Regional Government.

digital animation | architecture


title: Science and Technology Nucleous

date: 1991

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description: Architectural project for a large nucleous of science and technology, in Torres Novas, Portugal.

digital animation | architecture


title: Some virtual music scores

date: 1991-1999

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description: Few examples of Emanuel Pimenta's virtual music scores.

digital animation | virtual music score


title: Some architectural projects

date: 1988-1992

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description: Some architectural projects in diverse areas.

digital animation | architecture


title: Some architectural projects

date: 1980-1989

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description: Some architectural projects in diverse areas.

digital animation | architecture


title: FLUXS

date: 1979

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description: FLUXUS is a video art work and an electronic concert created by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta in 1979. At that time, graphic computers were very rare. This work is excusively electronic. Emanuel Pimenta was 21 years old when created this project. The complete work has about 30 minutes.

video art