Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (1932-1988) is certainly one of the key filmmakers of Brazilian filmmaking of the 1960s and early 1970s. But due in part to his early passing, he has a brief albeit highly diverse filmography consisting of five feature films, a feature-length documentary, and eight short films. Despite their diversity of …
Rogério Sganzerla’s debut feature film literally announces its playfulness and divergence from Cinema novo with an opening sequence of multiple layers of text and sounds: on the soundtrack are overlapping voiceovers from a man and a woman uttering headline-grabbing titles like ‘Total war in the Boca do Lixo’ and describing the film as …
The year 2014 marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Rogério Sganzerla (1946-2004), a seminal figure in words and images of what is commonly referred to as Cinema marginal (‘marginal cinema’) or the udigrudi (‘underground’) in Brazil. Sganzerla began as a film critic at the age of seventeen before he helmed his first film, the 1966 short titled …
From 10 May to 24 July, the Museum of Modern Art’s film series ‘On the Edge: Brazilian Film Experiments of the 1960s and 1970s’ serves as a complement to the exhibition ‘Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988.’ Both the exhibition and film series celebrate Brazilian cultural production at a time of intense creative ferment across multiple …