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Aug 16, 2022 · 1 Horacio González writes that what Rocha meant by trance ( transe) was “a state of convulsed wakefulness that assaulted the creative consciousness and provided its true impulse, guaranteeing that the work it produced would be independent of the spasms that originated it.”. González, “Glauber Rocha’s Thinking: The Proximity of Memory ...
May 9, 2024 · ABOUT THE SERIES: The American Cinematheque is proud to present the films of Glauber Rocha, one of the most influential Brazilian filmmakers. Co-presented by Consulate General of Brazil in Los Angeles, the retrospective spans across his filmography to include his debut feature BARRAVENTO, his western trilogy ENTRANCED EARTH, the 4K restoration of BLACK GOD WHITE DEVIL and ANTONIO DAS MORTES ...
Glauber Rocha (14 March 1939 – 22 August 1981) was a pioneer of Brazil’s Cine Novo movement. He worked as a journalist, and film critic before becoming a movie director eventually. His movies depict Brazil’s historic and social circumstances, and are characterized by numerous violent movie scenes. Rocha published his first short-movie ...
Nov 15, 2023 · Yoná Magalhães in Glauber Rocha’s Black God, White Devil (1964) . G lauber Rocha was only sixteen when he began reviewing movies for a local paper in the northeastern Brazilian city of Salvador, twenty when he made his first short film, Pátio (1959), and twenty-three when he completed his first feature, Barravento (1962), which screened the following year at the inaugural edition of the ...
An educated man returns to his village to free his people from old beliefs. Director Glauber Rocha Producer Braga Netto, Rex Schindler Screenwriter Glauber Rocha, Luiz Paulino dos Santos, Jose ...
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Scholarship on the Brazilian film Barravento (The Turning Wind) (1962) suggests that its director, Glauber Rocha, likewise inflects his film with uncertainty, especially in its portrayal of Marxist politics and the role that Candomblé (a syncretic polytheistic religion focused on the worship of a pantheon of gods) might play in effecting ...
Barravento. by Glauber Rocha, Brazil, 1962. Streaming DVD. Rocha's film debut: The fishermen in a village in Bahia on the north coast of Brazil have to rent their net from a trader and give up 90 percent of the catch. What's more, the net owner keeps threatening to take their tools away from them.
