Rogério Sganzerla
Rogério Sganzerla [1](4 May, 1946 — , 9 January, 2004) was a Brazilian filmmaker. One of the main names of the cinema marginal underground movement, his most known work is The Red Light Bandit (1968). Influenced by Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, and José Mojica Marins, Sganzerla often used clichés from film noir and pornochanchadas. Sarcasm, narrative subversion and collage were trademarks of his film aesthetics.[2]
Biography
Sganzerla was born in Joaçaba, in the state of Santa Catarina. Diring the 1960 decade he wrote for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo as film reporter. In 1967 Sganzerla directed his first short film, Documentário. In 1968 he directed his first feature film, O Bandido da Luz Vermelha (The Red Light Bandit)[3]
In 1970 he founded the Bel-Air film company, together with Júlio Bressane. Headed by Sganzerla, the company produced the films Copacabana Mon Amour e Sem essa aranha.
Sganzerla died in 2004, of a brain tumor, shortly after finish his last film O signo do caos.[4]
Filmography
As director
| Year | Film | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Documentário | Short |
| 1968 | O Bandido da Luz Vermelha | Feature |
| 1969 | Historias em Quadrinhos (comics) | Documentary |
| 1969 | Quadrinhos no Brasil | Documentary |
| 1969 | A Mulher de Todos | Feature |
| 1970 | Sem Essa, Aranha | Feature |
| 1970 | Copacabana Mon Amour | Feature |
| 1970 | Carnaval na Lama | Feature |
| 1971 | Fora do Baralho | Documentary |
| 1976 | Viagem e Descrição do Rio Guanabara Por Ocasião da França Antártica | Documentary |
| 1977 | Abismu | Feature |
| 1977 | Mudança de Hendrix | Documentary |
| 1981 | Noel por Noel | Short Documentary |
| 1981 | Brasil | Short |
| 1981 | A Cidade de Salvador (Petróleo Jorrou na Bahia) | Documentary |
| 1983 | Irani | Documentary |
| 1986 | Nem Tudo é Verdade | Feature |
| 1986 | Ritos Populares.Umbanda no Brasil | Documentary |
| 1990 | Isto é Noel Rosa | Short / Documentary |
| 1990 | Anonimo e Incomum | Documentary |
| 1990 | A Linguagem de Orson Welles | Documentary |
| 1992 | Perigo Negro | Short |
| 1992 | América: O Grande Acerto de Vespúcio | Short |
| 1997 | Tudo é Brasil | Documentary |
| 2001 | B2 | Shory |
| 2003 | Informação: H.J Koellreutter | Documentary |
| 2003 | O Signo do Caos | Feature |
External links
- Rogério Sganzerla on Internet Movie Database
- Dossiê Sganzerla at Contracampo Revista de Cinema
References
- ↑ Catálogo BAFICI 2010 (in Spanish). Gob Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
- ↑ CANUTO, Roberta (org.
- ↑ "Memory of the World National Cinematic Heritage" (PDF). UNESCO. 1995. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- ↑ "Morre o cineasta Rogério Sganzerla - Cultura - Estadão". Estadão. Retrieved 2016-02-15.