Rogério Sganzerla

Known for DirectingBorn 1946-11-26Died 2004-01-09Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Rogério Sganzerla (1946 — 2004) was a Brazilian filmmaker and one of the main names of the Cinema de Invenção (or Cinema Marginal) underground movement. 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. Sganzerla was born in Joaçaba, in the state of Santa Catarina, but moved with his family to São Paulo at a very young age, living there for most of his life. During the 1960s he wrote for the newspaper "O Estado de S. Paulo" ("The State of S. Paulo") as film critic, quickly being recognised as a young talent. In 1967, Sganzerla directed his first short film, "Documentário" ("Documentary"), winning an award at the JB-Mesbla 16mm Festival. "Documentário" was quickly followed up by his first feature-length film in 1968, "O Bandido da Luz Vermelha" ("The Red Light Bandit"), which became a landmark for the movement known as Cinema de Invenção or Cinema Marginal and is still Sganzerla's most well-known film. In 1970, he founded the "Bel-Air Filmes" production company along with fellow Cinema de Invenção filmmaker Júlio Bressane. Headed by Sganzerla, the company produced his films "Copacabana Mon Amour", "Carnaval na Lama" and "Sem Essa, Aranha" and Bressane's "A Família do Barulho", "Barão Olavo, o Horrível" and "Cuidado, Madame", all shot in Brazil during four months of 1970 and edited abroad, in England, when both Sganzerla and Bressane were banished from their home country by the then rulling military dictatorship. While in exile, both Sganzerla and Bressane continued to shoot new films. Sganzerla's personal obsessions, such as director Orson Welles (and his infamous visit to Brazil) and musicians Noel Rosa and Jimi Hendrix, appear in many of his films, going as far as being the main subject in some of them. In 1985, Sganzerla directed the docufiction "Nem Tudo É Verdade" ("It's Not All True") about Orson Welles' arrival in Brazil to film his unfinished documentary "It's All True". Sganzerla died in 2004, of a brain tumor, shortly after finishing his last film "O Signo do Caos" ("The Sign of Chaos"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Rogério Sganzerla licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

Oswaldianas

A Mulher da Luz Própria

Documentário

Noel por Noel

Carnaval na Lama

The Woman of Everyone

Brasil

The Red Light Bandit

The Abyss

Welles' Language

Audácia!

The Sign of Chaos

Comics

Copacabana Mon Amour

Perigo Negro

Irani

A Cidade do Salvador (Petróleo Jorrou na Bahia)

Garden of War

It's Not All True

Eye for an Eye

The Monsters of Babaloo

It's All Brazil

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

Isto é Noel Rosa

B2

Watch Out, Madame

The Interview

Rogério Sganzerla Send His Message to Brazil

Anônimo e incomum

Ritos Populares: Umbanda no Brasil

Horror Palace Hotel

Travel and Description of the Guanabara River on the Occasion of Antarctic France

No Way, Spider

The Hullabaloo Family

Baron Olavo, The Horrible

Dunas do Barato

The Werewolf: A Midnight Terror

Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

A Miss e o Dinossauro

Informação H. J. Koellreutter

A Marca do Terrir

Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz

My Calendar Girl

Ivan, the TerrirBle

Identidade

The Good Cinema