THE ABRANTES PARTNERSHIP

Pirata

2011-12-18T23:36:00.002-05:00

The man is trouble personified… Weiss Man

Boys before Christmas

2011-12-18T23:17:00.003-05:00

Don't share with Vovos yet - have printed versions for Christmas for them!

Miss you guys and wish we could be in Lisbon for Noel.

El Greco

Happy Birthday Big Pappa!

2011-11-29T21:46:00.002-05:00

Alex - truly old today! Wishing you a happy 60th birthday and many more to come. Since there's no absurd Jojo copy and paste birthday posting I felt like I had to fill the massive void left on the blog. Below, please find my favorite google quotes about turning 60, in order or increasing absurdity. Thank you google.

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
Pablo Picasso

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Maurice Chevalier

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
Arnold Bennett

I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.
Sylvester Stallone

Why he brought character Rocky out of retirement to make sixth and final instalment for movie Rocky Balboa.

Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it.
Chinese proverb

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Groucho Marx

Be kind to your kids, they'll choose your nursing home one day.
Author Unknown

Obviously the last one is my favorite... we will one day pick your nursing home and select what brand of adult diapers you should wear, so if you'd like the double soft pampers type... be nice to your kids! I like porsches and ferraris.

Happy birthday big pappa - look forward to celebrating your bday and Nathan's.

El Greco

Some More Beach Pics

2011-11-20T20:20:00.002-05:00

Classic St. John...

The boys riding in our beach mobile...

View of main town in St. John - Cruz Bay. St. Thomas is in the background, which is the main island where we flew into.

Caneel Bay - the nice resort inside the national park. All of this used to be owned by the Rockfellers and they donated it to the national park. We went to one of the 7 beaches on the resort several times (honeymoon beach) - super nice and very quiet.

The fam - Lucas and his 'surf' board

Lucas checking out the surf conditions on Honeymoon beach

Emily at sea on vacation... literally

I had to take at least 100 photos to get 1 where they were all semi looking at the camera

Big Weiss Man

Sugar Cane Plantation

Pelicans always cruising above

Finally, some surf conditions that are acceptable to Lucas

Lucas surfing... aided by mom and Mr. Nathan

Lucas after a wipeout during rough surfing conditions

Hi, my name is Nathan (part deux)

Lucas, William and their buddies

Pelicas coming down for suicidal dives into the water to catch fish

Some Beach Pics

2011-11-16T21:46:00.002-05:00

View from our balcony at the hotel

Hi - my name is Nathan.

William ready for a nap??

William with his friends...

Lucas and William with their friends...

Fall at the Lake

2011-10-30T21:24:00.002-05:00

Halloween!

2011-10-30T21:20:00.002-05:00

trip to Monticello

2011-10-16T23:30:00.002-05:00

trip to Monticello

2011-10-16T23:26:00.002-05:00

trip to Monticello

2011-10-16T23:21:00.002-05:00

Family Pics - photographer does exist...

2011-09-04T20:36:00.002-05:00

Lucas at Lunch

2011-09-04T19:54:00.002-05:00

Beach Marsh

2011-08-29T21:54:00.002-05:00

Dinner at Beach

2011-08-29T09:09:00.002-05:00

Dolphins

2011-08-29T09:04:00.002-05:00

Pool & Beach Boys

2011-08-29T08:52:00.002-05:00

Hurricane, Hotel, and Hamster

2011-08-29T08:45:00.002-05:00

Beach 1

2011-08-29T08:33:00.002-05:00

Nathan

2011-08-29T08:17:00.002-05:00

Boys playing

2011-08-29T08:10:00.002-05:00

Fair & balanced news: the Washington Pisa Tour

2011-08-23T17:28:00.001-05:00

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly reported at 2:30 p.m. ET their bureau received information from a producer saying that a Captiol Hill Police officer was saying the Washington Monument may actually be tilting as a result of the earthquake. Seismologist John Rundle joined Kelly on her show and confirmed that the Washington Monument could very well be tilting as a result of the earthquake and the structure should be checked out.

Le Peintre est mort, vive le Peintre!

2011-07-21T21:29:00.004-05:00

FRATELLI at CURTAS VILA DO CONDE 14 & 15 JULY !!!

2011-07-12T13:20:00.002-05:00

Hi everyone, This is to invite you to the opening screening of Fratelli, a film I have made in collaboration with Alexandre Melo. It is showing at Vila do Conde Curtas Film Festival this Thursday 14 at 11PM and Friday 15 at 8PM. Fratelli at Curtas I also have another film that I made in collaboration with Pedro Gomes, showing in the exhibition Stereo, also at Vila do Conde - BABY BACK COSTA RICA

Bom dia, convido-vos para a estreia do Fratelli, um filme que fiz em colaboração com o Alexandre Melo. Está em Vila do Conde nas Curtas na quinta dia 14 as 23H00 e Sexta dia 15 as 20H00. Fratelli at Curtas Tenho outro filme, que fiz em colaboração com o Pedro Gomes, na exposição Stereo, também em Vila do Conde. BABY BACK COSTA RICA

Um abraço
Gabriel

FRATELLI
A film adaptation of William Shakespeare prologue to the Taming of the Shrew, with portuguese dialogue, spoken with the Brazilian accent from Bahia, and filmed in the Lazzio region of Italy.
Uma adaptação do prólogo da “Fera Amansada” de William Shakespeare, com diálogos em português, representado com o sotaque brasileiro da Bahia, e filmado na província de Lazio em Itália.

BABY BACK COSTA RICA

Three teenage girls are heading home in their Mini Cooper S. They discuss their boyfriends, their boyfriend's mothers, their boyfriend's mother's cars, and Judaism. After making pizza they go swim in the pool. This film is part of the sub-genre of horror films where a vehicle is the protagonist, in this case a Mini Cooper S. Pedro Gomes developed an aggressive soundscape, working at the intersection of distorted post-rock guitar with horror film soundtrack tropes. It alternates in between a diagetic (music inside the car) and non-diagetic (music outside the car) register, which proposes it as something the girls consume, as well as something that consumes them, as it distinguishes and allocates them to a specific genre, and class.

Três raparigas estão a ser levadas para casa num Mini Cooper S. Falam sobre os namorados, as mães dos namorados, os carros das mães dos namorados e o judaísmo. Depois de aquecerem umas pizzas, vão nadar na piscina. Este filme faz parte de um sub-género de filmes de terror que se destacam pelo facto do protagonista ser representado por um carro, que é, neste caso, um Mini Cooper S. Pedro Gomes criou uma parede de som agressiva, cruzando guitarra distorcida com mecanismos das bandas sonoras de filmes de terror. O som varia numa relação diegética (musica dentro do carro) e não diegética (musica fora do carro), propondo-a como uma coisa que as teenagers consumem, e ao mesmo tempo uma coisa que as consume, distinguindo-as e as remetendo-as assim para um género e classe específicos.

Fratelli S-16MM 17 min Cor – Stereo / 5.1 2011

Realização, Argumento, e Produção de Gabriel Abrantes e Alexandre Melo. Fotografia e Montagem de imagem e som de Gabriel Abrantes.

Produzido por A Mutual Respect e A Vida Artística.

Na sequência de um convite dirigido pela Embaixada de Portugal em Itália no âmbito do ciclo “Visto de Roma” programado por Paulo Cunha e Silva, e apoiado pelo Instituto Camões

Adaptação do Prólogo da peça Taming of the Shrew de William Shakespeare

Direção de Produção de Miguel Sequeira Direção de Guarda Roupa de Olga Michalowska Assistente de Produção Edoardo Pasolini dall’Onda

Com o generoso apoio à Produção da Fondazione VOLUME!

Pós-produção de Imagem Light Film, Nova Imagem Correção de Cor Final Paulo Ines Correção de Cor Pedro Vilela

Pós-produção Som Óbviosom Mixagem Tiago Matos Bruitage Daniel Gries Gravação de Vozes Zé dos Bois

Os Fratelli Filipe Vargas Carloto Cotta Alexander David Anas Chouhaibi Claudio Fillipo Miguel Sequeira Francesca Merrino Romano Vitali Gabriel Abrantes Alexandre Melo

Vozes Filipe Vargas Carloto Cotta Alexander David João Vieira Torres Joana Nascimento Gabriel Abrantes Alexandre Melo

Música Gustav Mahler - Sinfonia n. 8 - Chorus mysticus: 'Alles vergangliche'

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata for piano, 4 hands in B flat major, K. 358

Ludwig van Beethoven - Es Muss Sein!, WoO 196

Filmado no Giardino di Ninfa, Necropoli della Banditaccia di Cerveteri, L’Académie de France à Rome na Villa Médicis, e em Calcata

Guarda Roupa da Farani Sartoria Teatrale

Agradecimentos a Fernando d'Oliveira Neves (Embaixador de Portugal em Roma) e Isabel d’Oliveira Neves, Francesco Nucci (Presidente Fondazione VOLUME!), Daniela Bartoccini Nucci, Sabrina Nucci, Marilena Borriello, Silvia Marsano, Pauline Stanislas de Laboulaye, Éric de Chassey (diretor de L’Académie de France à Rome, Villa Médicis), Marianne Derrien, Paolo Portoghesi e Giovanna Massobrio, Aziz Zummuri, Ana Paula Aguiar (Light Film), Cristina Pereira (Kodak-Portugal), Cornelia Lauf, Fondazione Roffredo Caetani, Lauro Marchetti, Seneca Guruge, Soprintendenza Archeologica Per L'Etruria Meridionale, Rita Cosentino, Luigi Piccolo (Diretor Farani Sartoria Teatrale), Carmela Cardone, Daniela Ciancio, Germano, Mauro de Pasquali (Kodak-Rome), e Miguel Vlaverde

BABY BACK COSTA RICA S-16 MM transfered for HD, 16:9 Cor, 5 minutes, Stereo

Script, Directoring, Camera, Editing, Sound and Production: Gabriel Abrantes
Produced by: A Mutual Respect
Actors : Dory Castro, Mariana Roberto, Nuria Coelho
Music : Pedro Gomes
Recording : Pedro Alçada
Colorist : Pedro Vilela
Production Assistant : Joana Nascimento
Thanks to : Manuel Caeiro, Rui Brito

Jojo & Boys

2011-06-27T23:42:00.005-05:00

Nathan getting big...

2011-06-27T23:37:00.003-05:00