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Rui Simões, resident director at Praça Sony, directed almost 200 shows live from a truck régie. Lou Reed, Caetano Veloso, GNR, Maria Bethânia, Sérgio Godinho, Morphine, B.B. King, Joaquin Cortês, Morcheeba, Maria Joãoand Mário Laginha, Van Morrisson, Fáfá de Belém, Cesária Évora, Urban Species, Ringo Starr, Rui Veloso, Dulce Pontes, Madredeus, Elba Ramalho, etc...He also directed Videocrew, a team of about 40 audiovisual technicians that guaranteed, for 4 months of EXPO 98, the continuity of image at Jumbotron in Praça Sony. He conceived and coordenated the training of assistent technicians of Videocrew.
In 1999 the 25th anniversary of Apri'ls Revolution of 1974 was celebrated. Byinvitation from EBHAL Equipamentos Bairros Históricos de Lisboa from Lisbon City Hall, the theater group O Bando assembled this show, that took place in the night of April 24th 1999, at Terreiro do Paço in Lisbon, a memory-show of the 48 years of darkness and the 25 that followed. Rui Simões created the projected images in large scale in the walls of Terreiro do Paço, during the show.
Rui Simões got invited to direct a short film of about 6 minutes, to display at Portugal's Pavillion at the Universal Exhibition of Hannover 2000, about the general subject:"Human Beings - Technical Nature". The film played on "loop" in a super panoramic screen of 16m x 2.67m in the interior or Portugal's Pavillion, and it is calculated that, by the end of the Expo, 3 million people have seen it. The movie works as a big window with a view of the country: the land, the people, the territory marks and its diversity of sea and land sights, but also the digital Portugal of education and training, and the contribution and collaboration in an international project of research, such as the glass chair and the robots for marine's research, present in the pavillion. The film incorporates aereal images from all over the country, adapted to this specific format, and dismisses words, recurring solely to visual and sound language. The soundtrack is by Manuel Faria - professional erudit musician made famous by his career with the group Trovante. The project designer for the Portuguese Pavillion was the Belgium Johann Schelfout, that had worked with Portugal's Pavillion before in Expo 98.
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