Francisco
Vidal
Actor, assistant director, filmmaker.
Música de Invenção
dir. Gregório Gananian
Co-lead (Filipe)
The story of a composer and her student — the union between life and fiction.
In Production
The World of the Dead
dir. Pedro Tavares
Actor (Fábio) · Assistant producer
On the second day after the death of Christ, humans, angels, and demons question the future of existence as they wander an Earth now abandoned. Without noticing, the existential exorcism grows ever more intense as the return of the Messiah draws near. A totally independent film, made without public funding.
28th Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes — Mostra Olhos Livres (January 30, 2025, Cine-Tenda)
The Inspector General
dir. Gregório Gananian
Actor (Espectro F.) · Pre-production assistant
When news of an Inspector General's arrival begins to circulate, the CEO of a mining company spirals into a growing state of paranoia. Under the threat of an imminent investigation, she revisits her own trajectory within the company, reconstructing from memory the paths that led her there. It is from this unstable, retrospective point of view that the film follows the formation of a power built on fear, blackmail, and dissimulation.
In post-production / Financing
Francisco Vidal
Francisco Vidal is an actor, assistant director and filmmaker based in Rio de Janeiro. Trained in Film at ESPM, he arrived in the audiovisual world through editing, post-production and listening to process — before ever standing in front of a camera.
Read full bio →The entry into cinema didn't happen in front of the camera, but from inside the matter of the film itself — through translation, editing, post-production. To act and to write about cinema are, here, the same attention seen from two sides.
Cinema Processual
Essays, translations, interviews and transcriptions on cinema as process, gesture, memory and form.
View all texts →Julio Bressane on Jean-Luc Godard
Transcription of an oral essay given by Julio Bressane in October 2022, following the death of Jean-Luc Godard, at the Cinemateca do MAM Rio.
Archaeology of Creation
Interview with Priscylla Bettim and Renato Coelho on handmade filmmaking, Super 8, Cinediário and the genesis of As Florestas da Noite.
Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage
Translation of an essay by Jonas Mekas published in Film Culture Reader (1970), organized by P. Adams Sitney.
Let's talk
Available for features, shorts, documentaries and hybrid projects.
franciscovidalcs@gmail.com@franciscovidalcs