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From the ’Famine Aesthetic’ to the ‘Favela-Pop’

A short and superficial overview on the HISTORY OF FILM in Brazil. As you know I made a critical remark to the Golden Bear for Tropa de Elite. I just would like to suggest some other favela-films which are worth to be watched.

Next monday you get a cast on TV Roc, the broadcasting from Rocinha.

Auf deutsch könnt Ihr das Thema Film hier nachlesen.

 
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Topics of the Brazilian film history and films I am refering to:
I tried to find the youtube links – only the newer ones are in English. When I linked the English title than it should be in English.
Cinema Novo
= italian Neo-realism (for example: Roma Città Aperta from Bertolucci)

  • ‘Rio 40 Graus‘ /Rio at 40 degrees, 1955/ and ‘Rio Zona Norte’ /Rio Northern Zone, 1957/ from Nelson Pereira dos Santos,
    You may watch the whole film in Portuguese. This here is just the first sequence. The rest you can find on youtube.
  • Cinco vezes Favela /five times favela 1962/, a collective film

    • Gláuber Rocha calls it in 1965 the “aesthetic of famine”.


Cinema Marginal

  • ‘Terra em Transe‘ /Gláuber Rocha, Land in Trance 1967/,
    DVD out just in portuguese.
  • ‘Macunaíma‘ /1969 by Joaquim Pedro/,
    in Portuguese and French
    The scene with the swimming pool is from the Parque Lage.
  • ‘O homem que Virou Suco‘ /The squeezed Man, 1979 by Jaoa Batista de Andrade/

Paulista
(more for TV than for cinema)

  • ‘Olhar Electrônico’ /electronic view/ with ‘Garotos do Subúrbio’ /The boys from the suburbs, 1982/
  • ‘Solo, the Law of Favela’ (1994),
  • ‘Zezé’ – The boy, the pod-lid and the favela’ (1995),
  • ‘Geraldo voador’ /Flying Gerald/(1996).

Favela-Pop

Keywords: tropa de elite, society, Michaela Ott, violence, Rio de Janeiro
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One Response to “From the ’Famine Aesthetic’ to the ‘Favela-Pop’”

  1. Slumsploitation Says:
    April 8th, 2008 at 10:29 am

    I found another article called ‘Slumsploitation – The Favela on Film and TV’ written by Melanie Gilligan.

    You will get more information on the films:
    documentary Bus 174 by José Padhila,
    City of God by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund,
    City of Men (Telenovela),
    Carandiru by Hector Babenco.

    You can view it here:
    http://www.metamute.org/en/Slumsploitation-Favela-on-Film-and-TV

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