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Ricardo Chreem works in different genres and has won 6 awards and several official Selection in different International Film

Festivals around the world.

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From the blank page until the finalized script, the idea of constructing a project from zero is a challenge for him as a writer, as a producer and as a director.

Joining images and sounds is something he loves and pursues as a film director and as the visual artist that he is.

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Intrigued by human relationships, this 52-year-old born in Rio de Janeiro moves through his work investigating the questions that involve contemporary humans and their forms of expression. His work suffered the influences of surrealism, the Theater of Protest, and Theater of the Absurd and Counterculture. It tries to raise questions and encourage possible transformations in the human condition.

 

He sees himself as a kind of Renaissance artist,

where a willingness to learn and explore, added

to a faith in humanism is what makes sense in a

world turned upside down.

“Lovely Clownettes,” a film about lady clowns and

his first feature, won the Best Documentary award

at the Women’s International Film Festival in the

U.S.A. in 2020.

“What Is an Actor?” won three awards as Best

Short Movie at the Mumbai International Festival,

in the Euro Film Festival and was the award of

merit winner in the Word Documentary Film

Festival in 2016.

 

"Everything involved in filmmaking interests me, and I've always sought to improve all the skills I’ve judged necessary to give me a whole vision as a filmmaker. Since my first short movies to my first feature film, I've been studying andcontinuously practicing all the areas involved to achieve the best final result, as initially idealized.

With this in mind, my target is to build a solid background in my career, nourishing all those skills. In this way, I've developed a unique eye and voice. Also, being an avid movie-goer has given me an analytic eye which lets me see other directors' work, beyond the more limited context of a specific film." Chreem says.

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He started his career specializing in scenic installations, at “Bienal” in São Paulo at the Museum of Contemporary Art, where puppets

the size of a human composed a large scenography illustrating a social satire. Many other exhibitions followed, he displayed

in galleries like the cultural Center Laura Alvim and many others.

 

He started to direct performances with actors, integrating them at the exhibitions. Examples of this were the amazing performances at the bathroom of "Dr Smith,” or works in process with author-actor at “CEP 20.000,” at the cultural center “Sergio Porto,” cradle of the “Carioca” vanguard, where he blew up giant balloons full of flour

on himself or used the corporal grammar of the contemporary mimic

to express his lines.

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At the end of 1999, he released his book "2000 Less Nothing."

Exactly one year later he opened an exhibition at Cultural Center Laura

Alvim, where on the side of every picture or installation there was a

sketch of the book which inspired the picture.

 

In 2003, still based on his book "2000 Less Nothing," he creates

with his director Bianca Ramoneda "More Days, Less Days,”

a solo-performance tragicomedy, where he acted and composed

the soundtrack together with the famous pop-music artist Pedro Luís,

and which culminated in funny and surreal results about daily life.

It was a complete success, and he was invited to return to Sergio Porto

theater the following year with great performances and the same success.

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In 2005, he worked on the exhibition "On the Art to Cross Walls," where

resin sculptures penetrated on the wall dived on acrylic pictures.

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In 2008, he writes, direct and acts in his first short film

“I Oppose the roler of the Lamp," (paper? role? shade?) together with

the team of N.A.D.A, a cartoon animation and designer group from the

Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC). The short film won

Best Documentary in Social Policy Category in the Euro Film Festival.

 

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After that, he was invited by the directors of “RioCenaContemporary”

to present his creation: the movement performance “March of Indignant

Lamps”. In this edition, he presented on the streets of Rio de Janeiro

this irreverently surrealistic piece, where 25 actors dress as lighted

lamps and leave in a march to the city. A result of this experience was

the short movie “March of Lamps.doc” edited in 2010, a documentary

showing all the phases of his work in progress.

 

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In 2012, he studied directing at Met Film School in Ealing Broadway,

London, where he shot “The Floor Below," with English actors for his final work.

In 2013, he concludes the filmmaking course at New York Film Academy where he shot the short “Brain Storm” with actors from Italy, Holland, USA, Turkey and Brazil for his final work.

Back in Brazil he shot the short “S.O.S. URB," a hyper-realistic short movie about contemporary life in big cities. At the invitation of the "O Globo" newspaper, the short is released in the first edition of “Globo Mais.”

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In 2014, he released unpublished short movies at Laura Alvim Cultural Center: “S.O.S URB”, “Brain Storm” and the prize-winning “What Is an Actor?”, and

“I refuse myself to the role of a lamp.”

 

In 2015, he shot “Photo Shoot of a Bald Head," winning the Gold Award

in Cinematography and Best Documentary.

 

In 2017, he acted in the play “A Clowns’ Evening," with others Brazilian

clowns on the stage, playing instruments and doing experiments, where

each one presented his solo. Chreem’s solo performance is “The Cell

State of the Being," which became a short documentary as well. In it,

he plays the role of a social-phobic actor who invented a kind of mask

made of several mobile phones, to talk about the addictive use of phones.

It is a metaphor about how our communication/expressions have changed

in the last decade and how we defend ourselves behind the screens.

“Lovely Clownettes,” his first feature, a film about lady clowns, won the

Best Documentary award in the Women’s International Film Festival in

the U.S.A. in 2020.

 

In 2021, he finalized “Lispector and I," a short film about the famous writer Clarice Lispector.

 

Now Chreem is working in " The Machine that was my heart", an experimental film about Hamlet, but in the tropics. The work experiments special effects mixing cartoon, collage and live theater.  Other work in process is Self interview, a series where the artists make their own script to tell their own carrer, process and work. 

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