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).[2] Influenced by Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, and José Mojica Marins, Sganzerla often used clichés from film noir and pornochanchadas. Irony, narrative subversion and collage were trademarks of his film aesthetics.
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. In 1985 Sganzerla directs the docufiction Nem Tudo É Verdade (It's Not All True) about Orson Welles' arrival to Brazil to film his unfinished documentary It's All True.[4]
Sganzerla died in 2004, of a brain tumor, shortly after finishing his last film O signo do caos.[5]
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 | [hort |
| 2003 | Informação: H.J Koellreutter | Documentary |
| 2003 | O Signo do Caos | Feature |
References
- ↑ Catálogo BAFICI 2010 (in Spanish). Gob Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
- ↑ Barnard, Timothy; Rist, Peter (2013-08-21). South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, l915-l994. Routledge. ISBN 9781136545559.
- ↑ "Memory of the World National Cinematic Heritage" (PDF). UNESCO. 1995. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- ↑ "Crítica: Rogério Sganzerla retoma antiga obsessão em "Nem Tudo É Verdade"". Folha de S.Paulo. Retrieved 2017-05-21.
- ↑ "Morre o cineasta Rogério Sganzerla - Cultura - Estadão". Estadão. Retrieved 2016-02-15.
External links
- Rogério Sganzerla on IMDb
- Dossiê Sganzerla at Contracampo Revista de Cinema