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antónio de macedo (1931−2017) was a portuguese filmmaker, writer, university professor and lecturer. he gave up filmmaking in the 1990s as he felt systematically excluded from the state support programs of the portuguese ministry of culture, the only financial source for film production in portugal at that time. consequently, he dedicated himself entirely to writing, investigation and teaching. he authored numerous books and essays spanning philosophy and fiction.
inspired by macedo’s experimental work and preambles with the genres of fantasy and speculative fiction, bonneville created the inaugural performance of the importance of being as a sort of resumption and resurrection, following the demise of their alter ego in the previous series (see mb#9).