Isabel Meyrelles
DOCUMENTary
Documentary by Ricardo Clara Couto, co-authored with Cristina Margato, about Isabel Meyrelles, one of the first surrealist women in Portugal.
O Dragão Que Fuma
Sculptor, poet and translator, Isabel Meyrelles arrived in Lisbon in 1949 to study sculpture. The young woman, who smoked a pipe and went to the barber to get her hair cut, began a tour of Lisbon’s cafés, where women only entered to pick up their husbands, attending, as she says, surrealist and neo-realist groups. Being different didn’t bother her, insofar as freedom was acquired at birth.
At the age of 93, she continues to work in her atelier in Paris. She enchants herself with words, clay, fairies, and elves.
Credits
RTP Archive
Maria de Fátima Ribeiro
RTP Delegate Producer
Rui Madruga
From a proposal by
Cristina Margato
Co-Author
Cristina Margato
Ricardo Clara Couto
Written and Directed by
Ricardo Clara Couto
With
Isabel Meyrelles
Artur Cruzeiro Seixas
Mário Cesariny
Sofia Pessoa Pádua
Mariana Bastos
Interpretation of Poems
Mónica Garcez
Corporal Interpretation of the Poems
Sofia Pessoa Pádua
Mariana Bastos
Production Direction
Luís Hipólito
Production
Maria Valverde
Joana Barros
Direction of Contents
Luís Filipe Borges
Research
Cristina Margato
Ricardo Clara Couto
Interview
Cristina Margato
Camera Operator
João Carneiro
Image Assistant
João Ramos
Art Director
Ana Bossa
Marta Viana
Audio
João Ricardo
Editing
Alberto Caeiro
Make Up and Characterization
Diana Pinto Correia
Motion Graphics
Ana Rita Romão
Maria Inês Carrola
Beatriz Lopes
Color Correction
José Rebelo
General Music
Ricardo Reis
Original Music
Ricardo Reis
Audio Post Production
Bernardo Soares
Stage
INIMPETUS – School for Actors
Stage Technique
Luís Coimbra
Audiovisuals
Audiomeios
Archive Images
RTP Image Archive
Cupertino de Miranda Foundation Collection
Acknowledgements
Isabel Meyrelles
Emilienne Paoli
Cupertino de Miranda Foundation
Audiomeios
INIMPETUS – School for Actors
Music
The aerial girl with his silver moon – Ricardo Reis
Fairy dust tree – Ricardo Reis
Liberté – Ricardo Reis
Last crying page – Ricardo Reis
Out of reach – Ricardo Reis
The last page of the book – Ricardo Reis
Literary references
Em voz baixa – Isabel Meyrelles
Le livre du tigre – Isabel Meirelles
O rosto do deserto – Isabel Meyrelles
Palavras noturnas – Isabel Meyrelles
A cidade queimada – Mário Cesariny
Credo – Natália Correia