Films
Telepathic Letters
Cartas Telepáticas
A film by Edgar Pêra
Portugal, 2024, 70'
Portuguese premiere | With guest
H. P. Lovecraft and Fernando Pessoa were among the most influential writers of the first half of the 20th century. They didn’t know each other, despite having lived at the same time, but there is an enormous complementarity between their lives and works. “Telepathic Letters’’ is a film with images created exclusively through AI, and in which a dialogue is established between their letters and essays, poems and fiction – an imaginary correspondence between the two authors made from their texts, creating a new universe of art and literary possibilities and fusing Pessoa’s sensationism with Lovecraft’s strange realism. Edgar Pêra returns to Pessoa in this prequel to “The Nothingness Club – Não Sou Nada” with the pioneering use of AI tools in Portuguese cinema. World premiere at the last Locarno Film Festival.
H. P. Lovecraft and Fernando Pessoa were among the most influential writers of the first half of the 20th century. They didn’t know each other, despite having lived at the same time, but there is an enormous complementarity between their lives and works. “Telepathic Letters’’ is a film with images created exclusively through AI, and in which a dialogue is established between their letters and essays, poems and fiction – an imaginary correspondence between the two authors made from their texts, creating a new universe of art and literary possibilities and fusing Pessoa’s sensationism with Lovecraft’s strange realism. Edgar Pêra returns to Pessoa in this prequel to “The Nothingness Club – Não Sou Nada” with the pioneering use of AI tools in Portuguese cinema. World premiere at the last Locarno Film Festival.
Credits
Director Edgar Pêra Script Edgar Pêra Producer Carlos André, Rodrigo Areias Cast Keith Esher Davis, Victória Guerra, Bárbara Lagido Language English Subtitles Inglês, Português Sales Bando à Parte
Edgar Pêra
Director “Telepathic Letters"