The Spicy-Man – Dialogues with Mr. Pepper
( O Homem-Pykante – Dialogos com pimenta )

Edgar Pêra
2018 - 75 min - Vidéo Full HD - Couleur - Portugal

"A smile is cheaper than electricity and gives more light to the youth" "The Spicy-Man - Dialogues with Pepper" is not a tribute documentary. It is a poetic film celebrating the work of Alberto Pimenta. Result of a friendship and complicity maintained during the last 24 years.
Pimenta is an artist, who considers himself a "tolerated", in the same sense of the administrative term with which prostitutes were designated in Portugal until middle of the twentieth century" as he wrote one day. Alberto Pimenta, who divides the poets into "tolerated" and "tolerant", is the author of a vast, libertarian, insubmissive and challenging poetic and performance work.
The starting point of this film are the archives, filmed by Edgar Pêra, between 1994 and 2018, of performances, conversations and readings by Alberto Pimenta, kinetic material that was then pre-selected by the poet Manuel Rodrigues and later assembled by Pêra. "The Spicy-Man - Dialogues with Pepper" is one of (many) possible outcomes.