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Saturday, Jan 18, 2025
6:30 PM (100 mins)
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BAMPFA
Antonio das Mortes
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Introduction
Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland. Weefur is an educator at Stanford University, a founding member of the curatorial film collective The Black Aesthetic, and the guest curator of Landscapes of Myth: Westerns After “The Searchers.”
Maurício do Valle, Odete Lara, Othon Bastos, Hugo Carvana,
Glauber Rocha’s color sequel to Black God, White Devil deals with the coming to political consciousness of the mercenary jagunço Antonio das Mortes, a paid killer of rebels and bandits in the backlands of Brazil. Even more stylized and operatic than Black God, Antonio das Mortes is as much a revolutionary cultural expression as a political allegory. In its flamboyant transformation of native folk art and mystical traditions, it is a highly original assertion of cultural values long suppressed: Its “tropicalist” style reflected newly formulated aesthetic principles in the Cinema Novo movement that never had a chance to flourish. It was derailed by censorship and repression in Brazil.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Glauber Rocha
Cinematographer
- Affonso Beato
Language
- Portuguese
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- 35mm
- 100 mins
Source
- George Eastman Museum
Permission
- Kino Lorber
Event Accessibility
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