Directing
Luiz Rosemberg Filho
Born 1943-08-24 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A Brazilian filmmaker, visual artist and essayist who worked extensively in film and video, Luiz Rosemberg Filho (1943 - 2019) is best kown for his features "O Jardim das Espumas" (1971), "A$$untina das Amérikas" (1976), "Crônica de um Industrial" (1978) and "Guerra do Paraguay" (2017). Rosemberg began his work with the arts as a painter during his teenage years, having his first contact with cinema during the early 1960s. His first film, "Balada da Página 3", is now lost. After releasing "O Jardim das Espumas" in the early 1970s, he moved to Paris, where he stayed until 1974 and became a close friend to fellow Brazilian director Glauber Rocha. By the late 1980s, Rosemberg was already transitioning his medium from film to video, with his works assuming an even more experimental, essayist nature. In the 2000s, he embraced the digital medium. He was commonly paired with the Brazilian Cinema Marginal movement, even though he rejected this framing for his work. His films "O Jardim das Espumas" and "Crônica de um Industrial" were censored by his country's then ruling military dictatorship. After "O Santo e a Vedete" (1982), he did'nt release a feature until "Dois Casamentos" (2014). Through all of this period (and after it), though, he continued to make short films and produced a number of collages, many of which have film as a subject. At December 2017, then aged 74, Rosemberg began publishing a series of Facebook posts containing his memories and thoughts on film, his friends, travels, politics, women, censorship, war, love, sex and the passing of time. He published those texts until February 2019, with a total of 404 posts that were later compiled into selected writings by his longtime colaborator, DoP Renaud Leenhardt. Shortly after releasing "Os Príncipes" (2018), Rosemberg was hospitalized and submited to a surgery that would remove an hernia. He passed away in 2019, having finished the editing process of "Bobo da Corte" (2019), his last film, just before his death.
Acting credits
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Rosemberg 70
2015
5.0The life and work of director Luiz Rosemberg Filho.
Rosemberg - Cinema, Colagem e Afetos
2017
5.4An ambassador from an outer (and rich) space comes to visit a poor planet, where he ends up being kidnapped.
The Garden of Foams
1971
No synopsis available yet.
Fragmentos de um Discurso Amoroso
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8.0Documentary about Waldemar Iglésias, a man living in Sorocaba, Brazil, who has been to the movies on a daily basis for 58 years. He talks about his childhood, his dreams, his favorite actors and actresses and the classic movies and cartoons.
O Espectador que o Cinema Esqueceu
1991
6.8An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.
The Fall
1976
4.4The story of a poor woman living in the backwoods of Brazil and working as a maid. One day she is unfairly fired from the house where she was working and goes to the big city, facing a cruel and hostile world, working in factories, bars and bordellos.
A Lost Woman
1976
NRFollowing Alexander Taylor, a teacher in the slums of Kibuna, this is a reflection about the modern times, mixing social criticism and cinematic experimentation to reflect about the overconsumption of images, fake news and social media.
Notícias do Fim do Mundo
2019
Behind the camera
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Adyós, General
1986
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Landscape
2017
NRA documentary about the life and work of poet and visual artist Moacy Cirne.
Agit-Prop
1993
7.0A video essay by Luiz Rosemberg Filho on the standardization of beauty through mass media.
The Mermaids
1994
7.0A video essay by Luiz Rosemberg Filho on the standardization of beauty through mass media.
The Mermaids
1994
5.0No synopsis available yet.
As Últimas Imagens de Tebas
2010
NRNo synopsis available yet.
O Dinheiro
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Afeto
2009
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Science-fiction
1993
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Dois Atos
2005
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Barbárie
2000
5.0No synopsis available yet.
As figurantes
2010
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Cinema
2005
4.8Two brides wait in a church room while their marriages don't begin. But they are not anxious, as expected: they do act like ghosts in existential horror. As they wait to be called to the start of their respective ceremonies, they reflect on their relationships and lives.
Dois Casamentos
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Cinema Novo
1991
5.0Questions about film language.
Linguagem
2014
5.0Questions about film language.
Linguagem
2014
10.0No synopsis available yet.
As Máscaras
2000
5.0No synopsis available yet.
O Vampiro
1988
5.0In a world troubled between capital and hunger, free thinking about the importance of enjoyment and enjoyment as an act of resistance. No longer representation as a metaphor for the relationships sold by American cinema, but life lived as a metaphor for resistance to bad politics lived in the world.
Gozo/Gozar
2016
5.0In a world troubled between capital and hunger, free thinking about the importance of enjoyment and enjoyment as an act of resistance. No longer representation as a metaphor for the relationships sold by American cinema, but life lived as a metaphor for resistance to bad politics lived in the world.
Gozo/Gozar
2016
5.0In a world troubled between capital and hunger, free thinking about the importance of enjoyment and enjoyment as an act of resistance. No longer representation as a metaphor for the relationships sold by American cinema, but life lived as a metaphor for resistance to bad politics lived in the world.
Gozo/Gozar
2016
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Uma Carta
2008
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Documentário
2001