The End of the World

João Mário Grilo (Figueira da Foz, Portugal, 1958). Studied Economics in Coimbra. Graduate degree in Sociology at ISCTE (Lisbon). MA and PhD in Media Studies with the dissertations “A Ordem do Fílmico, elementos para uma história menor do cinema” [The Order of the Filmic, elements for a minor history of cinema] and “A Ordem no Cinema, vozes e palavras de ordem no estabelecimento do cinema em Hollywood” [The Order in Cinema, voices and words of order in the establishment of cinema in Hollywood], at the Social and Human Sciences School of the Nova University (Lisbon), where he also Aggregate teacher of Filmology and Film Directing and coordinator of the Film Studies Centre, the Film Creation Lab and the school’s mediatheque. His first film was “Maria”(1978). After that, Grilo directed lhe “A Estrangeira” (1982), “O Processo do Rei” (1989), “O Fim do Mundo” (1993), “Saramago: Documentos” (1994), “Os Olhos da Ásia” (1996), “Longe da Vista” (1998), “451 Forte” (2000, “A Falha” (2002), and “Prova de Contacto” (2004). He’s currently editing the documentary “O Tapete Voador”. Grilo published extensively on film and contemporary art both in Portugal and abroad. He authored “A Ordem no Cinema” [The Order in Cinema], “O Homem Imaginado” [The Imagined Man], “O Cinema da Não-Ilusão” [The Non-Illusion Cinema], “O Livro das Imagens” [The Book of Images] and “As Lições do Cinema. Manual de Filmologia” [The Cinema Lessons. Filmology Manual]. Grilo represented Portugal in, among other international film festivals, Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, Rio de Janeiro, Toronto, Vancouver, San Francisco, Huston, Roterdam, Biarritz, Hong-Kong, S. Paulo and Stockholm. In 1982, he was awarded the Georges Sadoul Prize, in 1989, the Special Juri Prize in Rio de Janeiro, in 1982 and 1989, the Audience and the Juri Awards in Biarritz, and in 1990, the PROCIREP Prize in Cannes. —doclisboa