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A terrifying reflection on the urban tragedy of the future.

Without any dialogue, the film tells the story of a man who had an Oedipal passion for his mother. After getting married, the disorders return with more force and can lead to unimaginable consequences.

On the street, two boys meet. The film moves towards homoerotic suggestions of delicacy and violence. Accompanied by the fast camera, the performances of Torquato Neto and Zé Português dialogue with the soundtrack, composed of songs sung by Luiz Melodia, such as Negro Gato. Graphic elements and posters make up the narrative.

A drunk sailor, caught up in orgies, overdoes it on the drinks and ends up having a nightmare in which he is pursued by wild women on a desert island. From the series "quotidianas kodaks" (everyday Kodaks).

The films of Jorge O Mourão, a collection of autobiographical performance pieces, constitute visceral reactions to the authoritarian regime in Brazil and channel the paranoia and claustrophobia of his generation through the disjunction of sound and image.

Shot originally in Super 8, this poignant short film by the artist Anna Maria Maiolino references Oswald de Andrade’s notion of cultural cannibalism from the 1920s, which was reinterpreted as tropicalismo in the 70s. The film presents a sequence of close-up shots of a male and a female mouth that trade gestures and expressions, creating an ambiguous dialogue, an oblique reference to the hardships of a female artist and the censorship and violence of the Brazilian dictatorship.

Short film by Brazilian artist Antonio Manuel.

VHS video by Regina Silveira

Folklore and scholarly research: a field study on the congadas of the Festa do Serro, in Minas Gerais. The stages of the congada, divided into three groups: the catupi, the reinado, and the marujos. The cultural symbolism of each of them. The abundance of food during the celebration, representing the richness of the harvest.

The artist uses an electroencephalograph and offers a direct graphic work of the brain on paper without using the hands as intermediates of the drawings.

17 minutes of urban contrasts, accompanied by a relaxing sauce, with fine herbs, and filled with socio-psycho-philo-eco-biological impressions

A brown spot grows and develops into the shape of a spider, which shrinks and enlarges in a repetition of frames. The spider transforms into a bird, which changes its head and performs a flying motion from the center of the screen to the lower left corner, where its shape degrades and recomposes itself into the shape of another bird, which flies toward the right side of the frame. The word “end” gradually appears, formed by small, discontinuous strokes. While writing the letter M, a hand holding a pen appears, writing. The small strokes are transformed into continuous letters, and the last movement is the transformation of the letter I into a stick figure waving, accompanied by a speech bubble containing the word “end” again.

Experimental short film, shot in Super 8.

At the beginning of the film the word FOME (hunger) appears written with bean seeds. The germination of the grains is recorded step by step until it gives rise to exuberant plants, thus creating an ironic metaphor that inverts the meaning of the word. The film refers to the misery that was experienced in certain areas of Brazil in the 1970s. One of the works of the "Quasi Cinema" movement in Brazil.

A short documentary that presents the legacy of Padre Cícero, an important priest for the Juazeiro do Norte community, who managed to bring progress and new developments to the town after a miracle to brought plenty of attention to the region.

Film director Nelson Pereira dos Santos reflects on cinema and history in an interview with SRTV.

By manipulating archives from the transitional period between the 19th and 20th centuries in Brazil, Renato Neumann narrates the early exploitation of rubber plantations in regions of the Amazon, the absorption and transformation of rubber in European society, and its political and economic consequences for the territory in question. The story focuses on highlighting the figure of Plácido de Castro, a significant personality in the conflicts that occurred between Brazil and Bolivia in the early 1900s.

A series of interviews with the residents of Canoa Quebrada - a tourist spot on the coast of Ceará, Brazil - that puts in contrast the local poverty and the idyllic nature that surrounds it.

Looking for a presence.

Documentary short about Brazilian medium Chico Xavier.

Alberto takes part in a revolution in Portugal and escapes to Belem in Brazil. There work in the jungle you make him change his worldview.

The religiosity of slave society is evident throughout the Pelourinho area: oratories and altars, cornices and windows, balconies and ornaments, both religious and civil architecture. A view of the Church of the Third Order of Saint Francis, the Carmelite Convent, the Cathedral Basilica, and the Largo do Pelourinho square.

The film begins in Egypt, in a ritual in which Phobus (Ivaldo Selva), in front of a stone altar decorated with diabolical statues and surrounded by dozens of men and women who hold torches and wear black hoods, sacrifices a young dancer, sticking a knife in her chest. Then, “jump” to the 1960s, when young Tânia, newly married to Alexandre runs over Flávio (Ivaldo Selva again) in front of a newsstand.

A parabol about the despised ones of the Earth.