Entre a ficção e a realidade: o carnaval segundo Edgar Pêra

The films of Edgar Pêra are, more often than not, characterized as marginal in the Portuguese context. Responsible for a hundred projects different media (Cinema, Television, Comics and Transmedia) three decades, has been active working on several that, certain way, make him “an artist who cannot be defined by way facile comparisons generalisations, explained through simple similes, boxed into this genre or that aesthetic” (Moller, 2019). In Pêra’s films, screen is usually invaded frenetic visual panoply combines both serious comic, ridicule grotesque, well documentary fictional all seemingly unique anarchic movement. This case Delírio Las Vedras (2017), film commissioned Torres Council where director Carnival – carnivalesque movement blurs distinction between real its altered state (the surreal?). From exercise emerges explores Vedras’ within culture, but also how tradition used place inquiry national culture. Taking account, purpose study to look uses fiction transgressive space, geographic filmic.