Gurcius Gewdner

Directing

Gurcius Gewdner

Born 1982-07-30 · Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

Gurcius Gewdner, born in 1982, screenwriter, editor and director, stood out early in the Brazilian underground with eschatological-dadaist anti-music performances with his group Os Legais, from the mid-90s onwards. Self-taught, but with an academic background in History, his interest in performance art and experimental music gave rise to the desire to make films, which were born parallel to his musical projects. A multi-faceted filmography: influenced by Christoph Shilingensief, Vera Shitlova, John Waters and the Kuchar brothers, he has several short and medium-length fiction films, including Texas Carlos Massacre (2021), Lieder Die Soldaten Morgen (2019), Bom Dia Carlos (2015, awarded at the Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, shown at Fifigrot, Sydney Underground Film Festival, Housecore Horror Festival, among others), Erivaldo: o Astronauta Místico (2013), Freddy Breck Ballet (2010) and Nosferatum (2003, awarded at Cine Esquema Novo). And two feature films that are revered worldwide: Pazucus: Island of Vomit and Despair (2017, an eschatological monster adventure shown on open TV, on Fantaspoa, Film Panic Presents, New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival, Insólito Film Festival, among others) and Mamilos em Chamas (2008), which in 2024 was listed in the book "Cinema Degli Eccessi" by Andrea Guaia, as one of the 100 most shocking films in the history of cinema, alongside masterpieces of extreme cinema such as Saló, Pink Flamingos, Sweet Movie and Irreversible. Since 1998, Gurcius, in partnership with Petter Baiestorf, has been one of the central figures of Canibal Filmes, the most influential SOV production company of extreme cinema in Brazil, with films such as Zombio 2: Chimarrão Zombies (2013, shown in Sitges, BUT Film Festival, Rojo Sangre, among others), Ninguém Deve Morrer (2009) and the sequel to the cult classic O Monstro Legume do Espaço (1995/2007), a partnership of more than 30 films, including feature-length, medium-length and short films. With performer and director Ligia Marina/Juma Pariri and Colombian activist Margarita Rodriguez Weweli-Lukana, he has been producing a series of experimental indigenous short films, 5 to date, including Hot Air (2023, shown at Echoes Indigenous Film Festival, Māoriland Film Festival, Red Nation International Film Festival, FICCI, Porn Film Festival Berlin, among others), Fôlego Vivo (2021) and Hasta El fin del Mundo (2018). In partnership with legendary photographer and filmmaker Ivan Cardoso, they created a collection of 24 films brought together in the feature film O Baccanal do Diabo (2013, shown in Rotterdam, Karlov Vary, among others) and the experimental O Colírio do Corman (2020). Together with editor Christian Caselli, he put together documentaries with intense archival research such as Ivan O TerriRvel (2019) and Serguei O Psicodélico (2016). He has acted in films such as Tongues of Fire (2024), Black Sea (2013), among others. In music, it is also worth mentioning prolific collaborations with L. Borgia Rosseti and Orquestra Zé Felipe. Parallel to all this, he has a filmography of documentaries about his own creative process, such as the feature film A Nau dos Foos (2021, with appearances by Roger Corman, Olaf Moller and Richard Stanley), Cavalo Marinho vem a Cavalo (2020), Banho Gostoso (2008) and O Triunvirato (2004).

Acting credits

Dead Human Collection poster
2.6

Inspired by 70s Horror movies and real crimes, Dead Human Collection is a bloodbath that follows a deranged Serial Killer and his sadistic habits.

Dead Human Collection

2005

Nham-Nham, A Criatura poster
NR

When moving to a new town, Lucas makes a new friend who helps him forget his problems. But forgetting may not be the best way to deal with problems.

Nham-Nham, A Criatura

2015

Tropical SOV: Bizarre Sci-fi Samba poster
NR

Once again, 23 Brazilian filmmakers come together for the second Tropical SOV anthology, now exploring sci-fi in humorous stories involving aliens and their space invasions, mad scientists, time travel, dystopias, and a myriad of end-of-the-world scenarios.

Tropical SOV: Bizarre Sci-fi Samba

2026

Symbolicus Vol. 1 poster
6.0

Symbolicus is an experimental anthology project developed by extreme horror maestro Marcus Koch (100 Tears, AGP: Bloodshock). Assigned with nothing more than a symbol, filmmakers were granted full control and creativity to construct absolutely anything they wanted. Spanning over three volumes and consisting of works from 39 different filmmakers from around the world. Symbolicus defies the boundaries of traditional filmmaking, dismissing the concepts of genre or narrative. Delivering a cinematic experience like nothing you have seen before.

Symbolicus Vol. 1

2021

The Whore with the Chainsaw poster
6.8

A love story, a love triangle that gets soiled with blood with the arrival of a fourth character: a serial killer who collects vaginas. Lesbian couple is chased by lover betrayed in the areas of Weird. Blood and sex in the tradition of the 80's Boca do Lixo films with eschatological scenes and total cinematographic metalanguage.

The Whore with the Chainsaw

2008

Atomic Beer poster
NR

A punk scientist formed the formula of the deadly drink that transforms drunks into hallucinated zombies and awakens the fury of Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother and her afternoon tea buddies, who armed and dangerous decide to get revenge.

Atomic Beer

2003

Tongues of Fire poster
NR

Two missionaries travel through the forest searching for the last uncontacted tribe, at the mythical city of Ragatanga. Lost and disoriented, they face supernatural threats that put their faith to the ultimate test.

Tongues of Fire

2024

Dark Sea poster
5.3

A strange black spot approaches the coast, bringing death and destruction to a fishing village. In a desperate flight to escape the chaos, lonely Albino fights for the great love of his life at the risk of his own soul.

Dark Sea

2013

Perdigotos da Discórdia poster
NR

Couple making love in a park in Rio de Janeiro face perverts in search of sex.

Perdigotos da Discórdia

2012

Texas Carlos Massacre poster
5.0

Guided by his doctor (or is it voices in his head?), a young director is given a mission: to go to Texas to make an abstract roadmovie (“Unfocused film! Focus is repressed!”) about the Housecore Horror Festival of Film and Music, a festival that brings together cinema and extreme music.

Texas Carlos Massacre

2021

The Noble Bloodsucker Politician poster
4.5

A complex children's fable about world domination with homage to classic black and white horror films and monsters.

The Noble Bloodsucker Politician

2007

Mr. Baiestorf's Beach Party poster
10.0

One summer morning, Mr Baiestorf forgets how to put on flip-flops, takes a deep breath, opens a beer and goes to the beach to spend a day full of love and great emotions.

Mr. Baiestorf's Beach Party

2024

Zombio 2 poster
5.0

Zombies, beautiful dead girls, newly-dead and a wide variety of colorful and slimy undead invade the West of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Guts roll while "yerba mate" Cronenberg is consumed by the farmers. But the zombies aren't the biggest problem when all the humans are sadistic and selfish.

Zombio 2

2013

A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus poster
NR

With free eyes, an open heart, good friends and a handful of luck, Gurcius Gewdner revisits some of his adventures of the past five years, survives the relentless Russian winter and asks the following question: How far can an underground Brazilian film go?

A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus

2021

Tropical SOV poster
10.0

Tropical SOV is a Brazilian anthology that brings together 23 independent filmmakers who bring to life 21 hilarious, strange and bizarre stories that could only happen in Brazil. From brains that produce cocaine to the incredible human videocassette, including the secrets of synthetic meat, baldness cures, castration of rapists, nihilistic fruits, magical sweets and the poop king of Evangelistão.

Tropical SOV

2025

Nosferatum poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nosferatum

2003

Nobody Must Die poster
NR

The Gunslinger Nobody refuses to suck a bull's cock in Colonel Bajon's zoophilia movie, and a musical hunt begins.

Nobody Must Die

2009

Arrombada - I'll Piss On Your Fucking Grave!!! poster
4.1

A girl is kidnapped by a drug dealer at the behest of a corrupt senator, who intends to hold a party in the presence of a demented priest and a doctor using the girl as fun.

Arrombada - I'll Piss On Your Fucking Grave!!!

2007

Pressa de te amar poster
NR

I live in a hurry without knowing I'm always running from place to place

Pressa de te amar

2013

3 Cortes poster
1.0

"3 Cortes" is a collection of three gore-filled shocking short films from three Brazilian filmmakers. The first story, "Sozinho", is about a man meeting up with a young woman he met earlier in the day. When he gets to her place, she has a special surprise in store for him. "Coleção de Humanos Mortos" is the second story, and in it a young man is plagued by his inner demons, pushing him to satisfy his desire to inflict pain on others. Finally, in "06 Tiros, 60ml" a man wakes up to find himself trapped inside a hospital with blood-soaked faceless monsters and must do what he can to escape, even if that means killing every monster or person he comes across.

3 Cortes

2006

Quem é Gurcius Gewdner? poster
NR

Who is Gurcius Gewdner?

Quem é Gurcius Gewdner?

2017

Sangue Marginal poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sangue Marginal

2013

Pazucus: Island of Vomit and Despair poster
3.7

In the wild island of Pazúcus, everything is hopeless. Oréstia & Omar seek to harmonize their relationship in a camp and find themselves gradually oppressed by nature, which changes from paradisiac to hellish. Simultaneously, inside Carlos’ intestines, fecal monsters plot his demise. This stomachic confusion makes him an easy prey for the obsessive Dr. Roberto. The paranoia, the sorcery, the madness and the prophetic voice lead their destinies to a place where the dissolution of all beings appears to be the only possibility of communion.

Pazucus: Island of Vomit and Despair

2017

Capivaras na Noite poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Capivaras na Noite

2024

Behind the camera

Bowels of Hell poster
4.3

Malu is organising a gender-reveal party for a pregnant influencer – while dealing with her own grief, her persistent constipation problems and her adolescent transgender child (who disapproves of her job commission). At the condominium where Malu lives, some strange phenomena are unleashed in the home’s most private zone: the bathroom.

Bowels of Hell

2026

Bowels of Hell poster
4.3

Malu is organising a gender-reveal party for a pregnant influencer – while dealing with her own grief, her persistent constipation problems and her adolescent transgender child (who disapproves of her job commission). At the condominium where Malu lives, some strange phenomena are unleashed in the home’s most private zone: the bathroom.

Bowels of Hell

2026

Tropical SOV: Bizarre Sci-fi Samba poster
NR

Once again, 23 Brazilian filmmakers come together for the second Tropical SOV anthology, now exploring sci-fi in humorous stories involving aliens and their space invasions, mad scientists, time travel, dystopias, and a myriad of end-of-the-world scenarios.

Tropical SOV: Bizarre Sci-fi Samba

2026

Tropical SOV: Bizarre Sci-fi Samba poster
NR

Once again, 23 Brazilian filmmakers come together for the second Tropical SOV anthology, now exploring sci-fi in humorous stories involving aliens and their space invasions, mad scientists, time travel, dystopias, and a myriad of end-of-the-world scenarios.

Tropical SOV: Bizarre Sci-fi Samba

2026

Tropical SOV: Bizarre Sci-fi Samba poster
NR

Once again, 23 Brazilian filmmakers come together for the second Tropical SOV anthology, now exploring sci-fi in humorous stories involving aliens and their space invasions, mad scientists, time travel, dystopias, and a myriad of end-of-the-world scenarios.

Tropical SOV: Bizarre Sci-fi Samba

2026

Symbolicus Vol. 1 poster
6.0

Symbolicus is an experimental anthology project developed by extreme horror maestro Marcus Koch (100 Tears, AGP: Bloodshock). Assigned with nothing more than a symbol, filmmakers were granted full control and creativity to construct absolutely anything they wanted. Spanning over three volumes and consisting of works from 39 different filmmakers from around the world. Symbolicus defies the boundaries of traditional filmmaking, dismissing the concepts of genre or narrative. Delivering a cinematic experience like nothing you have seen before.

Symbolicus Vol. 1

2021

Until the end of the world poster
NR

Realized from the encounter of differences between the counselor governor from the indigenous reserve Sikuani El Merey-La Veradicta Margarita Rodriguez Weweli-Lukana and the urban-indigenous in a cultural recovery process, Juma Gitirana Tapuya Marruá. This video was an attempt of healing the colonial pain from those open wounds that hurt in us all, hum@n and non hum@n, nature from Abya Yala.

Until the end of the world

2018

Erivaldo, o Astronauta Místico poster
NR

The exploratory voyages of man to Mars began in 1988. Most astronauts returned from space travel mad or with mystical delusions. As long as total secrecy was maintained, a select group of journalists spread across the planet were aware of these excursions, among them some journalists from the staff of O GLOBO. The astronauts reports are rare, but constant and delivered in two ways: audio reports and footage of the field trips, starring the brave Brazilian astronaut Erivaldo Mattüs. With the mysterious disappearance of our hero from Alagoas, the time has come for some of these reports to come to the attention of the public, through the infallible archives preserved by Gurcius Gewdner.

Erivaldo, o Astronauta Místico

2013

Erivaldo, o Astronauta Místico poster
NR

The exploratory voyages of man to Mars began in 1988. Most astronauts returned from space travel mad or with mystical delusions. As long as total secrecy was maintained, a select group of journalists spread across the planet were aware of these excursions, among them some journalists from the staff of O GLOBO. The astronauts reports are rare, but constant and delivered in two ways: audio reports and footage of the field trips, starring the brave Brazilian astronaut Erivaldo Mattüs. With the mysterious disappearance of our hero from Alagoas, the time has come for some of these reports to come to the attention of the public, through the infallible archives preserved by Gurcius Gewdner.

Erivaldo, o Astronauta Místico

2013

Erivaldo, o Astronauta Místico poster
NR

The exploratory voyages of man to Mars began in 1988. Most astronauts returned from space travel mad or with mystical delusions. As long as total secrecy was maintained, a select group of journalists spread across the planet were aware of these excursions, among them some journalists from the staff of O GLOBO. The astronauts reports are rare, but constant and delivered in two ways: audio reports and footage of the field trips, starring the brave Brazilian astronaut Erivaldo Mattüs. With the mysterious disappearance of our hero from Alagoas, the time has come for some of these reports to come to the attention of the public, through the infallible archives preserved by Gurcius Gewdner.

Erivaldo, o Astronauta Místico

2013

Perdigotos da Discórdia poster
NR

Couple making love in a park in Rio de Janeiro face perverts in search of sex.

Perdigotos da Discórdia

2012

Perdigotos da Discórdia poster
NR

Couple making love in a park in Rio de Janeiro face perverts in search of sex.

Perdigotos da Discórdia

2012

Texas Carlos Massacre poster
5.0

Guided by his doctor (or is it voices in his head?), a young director is given a mission: to go to Texas to make an abstract roadmovie (“Unfocused film! Focus is repressed!”) about the Housecore Horror Festival of Film and Music, a festival that brings together cinema and extreme music.

Texas Carlos Massacre

2021

Texas Carlos Massacre poster
5.0

Guided by his doctor (or is it voices in his head?), a young director is given a mission: to go to Texas to make an abstract roadmovie (“Unfocused film! Focus is repressed!”) about the Housecore Horror Festival of Film and Music, a festival that brings together cinema and extreme music.

Texas Carlos Massacre

2021

Texas Carlos Massacre poster
5.0

Guided by his doctor (or is it voices in his head?), a young director is given a mission: to go to Texas to make an abstract roadmovie (“Unfocused film! Focus is repressed!”) about the Housecore Horror Festival of Film and Music, a festival that brings together cinema and extreme music.

Texas Carlos Massacre

2021

Good Morning Carlos poster
6.0

Carlos finds himself troubled by a powerful restlessness. At the same time his analyst is obsessed with the idea that he should delete Carlos in order to save his island. An island is, by excellence, a troubled territory. Piece of land separated off the mainland or territory emerging and arising from the center of the world shocks : re- integrate into the sea is the ghost that haunts all the islands. There is in this tense relationship between sea and island, an opposition between civilization and destruction, shape and inform, culture and chaos united in a loving and eschatological tribute to Carlos Reichenbach, Lucio Fulci and Andrzej Zulawski.

Good Morning Carlos

2015

Lieder die Soldaten Morgen poster
1.0

It's 2019: a totalitarian odyssey. Cold winds. Death pulse. Dancing and eating, with penguins and tortured humans screaming in the abyss of death. Every year they travel to the coast with the intention of dancing and then die. All over the world, there's more than meets the eye. Land and sea to share. Red, yellow, black and white. There's darkness and there's light. Sad stories are told, but it's good to be alive.

Lieder die Soldaten Morgen

2019

Lieder die Soldaten Morgen poster
1.0

It's 2019: a totalitarian odyssey. Cold winds. Death pulse. Dancing and eating, with penguins and tortured humans screaming in the abyss of death. Every year they travel to the coast with the intention of dancing and then die. All over the world, there's more than meets the eye. Land and sea to share. Red, yellow, black and white. There's darkness and there's light. Sad stories are told, but it's good to be alive.

Lieder die Soldaten Morgen

2019

Lieder die Soldaten Morgen poster
1.0

It's 2019: a totalitarian odyssey. Cold winds. Death pulse. Dancing and eating, with penguins and tortured humans screaming in the abyss of death. Every year they travel to the coast with the intention of dancing and then die. All over the world, there's more than meets the eye. Land and sea to share. Red, yellow, black and white. There's darkness and there's light. Sad stories are told, but it's good to be alive.

Lieder die Soldaten Morgen

2019

A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus poster
NR

With free eyes, an open heart, good friends and a handful of luck, Gurcius Gewdner revisits some of his adventures of the past five years, survives the relentless Russian winter and asks the following question: How far can an underground Brazilian film go?

A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus

2021

A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus poster
NR

With free eyes, an open heart, good friends and a handful of luck, Gurcius Gewdner revisits some of his adventures of the past five years, survives the relentless Russian winter and asks the following question: How far can an underground Brazilian film go?

A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus

2021

A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus poster
NR

With free eyes, an open heart, good friends and a handful of luck, Gurcius Gewdner revisits some of his adventures of the past five years, survives the relentless Russian winter and asks the following question: How far can an underground Brazilian film go?

A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus

2021

Nosferatum poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nosferatum

2003

Nosferatum poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nosferatum

2003