Museum in Japan dedicates exhibition to Portuguese director Pedro Costa

According to information available on the museum's website, the "Innervisions" exhibition will be on display between August 28 and December 7.

The title of the exhibition refers to the album 'Innervisions', by Stevie Wonder, "which Pedro Costa listened to as a teenager and which would become a reference and a confessed source of inspiration".

"The spirit of this album [released in 1973], which knows how to balance the most ingenious modern popular music with social commentary, resonated deeply with Costa's cinematic practice," reads the website of the Tokyo Museum of Photographic Art.

The exhibition includes works "related to the characters, places and environments that have played a vital role in Costa's work", as well as works from the Museum's collection.

While 'Innervisions' is on display, the museum's cinema will screen films selected by Pedro Costa, as well as a retrospective of the director's works.

The museum's managers consider the exhibition "very special, showing and demonstrating the power of cinema and the depth of Pedro Costa's cinematic universe."

According to information released today, "in anticipation of the opening of the exhibition, some movie theaters in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Kyoto premiered the new restored versions of 'The Blood', 'House of Lava' and 'Bones'."

Born in Lisbon in 1959, Pedro Costa is an independent filmmaker, heir to the experiments made in 16mm in documentaries by his peers of the so-called New Cinema, having graduated from the Higher School of Theater and Cinema of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon.

He began his career in the 1990s, having been assistant director to Jorge Silva Melo and João Botelho, having created feature and short films such as 'Vitalina Varela' (2019), 'Ne Change Rien' (2009), 'Juventude em Marcha' (2006), 'Ossos' (1997), 'Casa de Lava' (1994) and 'O Sangue' (1989).

Internationally acclaimed for his films, Pedro Costa is also recognized for several exhibitions, notably the Tokyo Museum of Photographic Art: 'Companhia', which was on display in 2018 at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Le reste est ombre', with Rui Chafes and Paulo Nozolino, on display in 2023 at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and 'La Canción de Pedro Costa', which toured various regions of Spain between 2022 and 2023.

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