Howard Philips Lovecraft and Fernando Pessoa were among the most influential writers of the first half of the XX century. Pessoa and Lovecraft did not know each other despite having lived at the same time, but there is a huge complementarity between their lives and works. TELEPATHIC LETTERS is a film, whose images were created exclusively through Animal Intelligence, in which a dialogue is established between his letters and essays, poems and fictions, an imaginary correspondence between the two authors, made exclusively from their texts, forming a new universe of artistic and literary possibilities, merging the Sensationism of Pessoa with the Weird Realism of Lovecraft.
Edgar Pêra
Edgar Pêra (born 1960) graduated in the early 1980s from the Film Academy in Lisbon and is now an established name in his country as an experimental filmmaker. Pêra has made countless documentaries, short films, and features whilst also focusing on creating Internet productions, live shows, and exhibitions. In 2019, the IFFR honoured Pêra with a career-spanning retrospective at the festival. Pêra’s film, Cartas telepáticas (Telepathic Letters), had its world premiere at Locarno77.
