Black God, White Devil

In 1973, during a trip to the city of Essaouira, in Morocco, Glauber Rocha and girlfriend Mossa Bildner took a Super 8 camera to register their impressions.

This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the plight of the Cangaceiro’s followers. The troubled hitman turns revolutionary, his gun and machete aimed towards his former masters.

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and society.

Invoking Africa’s brutally violent and complex colonial histories in the film’s polyglot, hydra-headed title, Glauber Rocha transposes his radical allegory of oppression from the Brazilian backlands of his Cinema Novo classic Antonio das Mortes (1968) to the Congolese savanna. A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet government presidency; and a revolutionary group marches in exile.

Short film.

A report on Sarney's inauguration as the governor of the Maranhão state. His promises are heard alongside images of the grim reality.

Tendo Roma como cenário e a cultura romana como alvo, Claro não tem um enredo narrativo e uma estrutura tradicional, misturando ópera (sobretudo a partir da trilha musical que reúne Bellini e Villa-Lobos), documentário, filme-testemunho e ensaio. A presença no elenco do instigante realizador italiano Carmelo Bene e da atriz francesa Juliet Berto valorizam um filme irreverente, provocativo, um dos mais autorais de Glauber e onde sua assinatura indelével se corporifica em cada plano.

Unfinished documentary about the "March of the 100,000", driven by the student movement against brazilian dictatorship in 1968. Glauber directed with "Antonio das Mortes'" cinematographer, Affonso Beatto. A mysterious film.

A man and a woman are laying on a chess-like patio. Both are trying to reach each other in the best way they can. However, for some odd reason they don't get on their feet, they don't talk to each other, and the only sounds heard are voices coming from a radio and strange sounds that seem to indicate something's about to happen.