Décio Pignatari

Com a Palavra, Arnaldo Antunes

From his origins as a poet to his success as a singer and composer, Arnaldo Antunes revisits the most remarkable moments of his career.

Saturday

On a Saturday morning, an advertising crew arrives at a decadent old building downtown São Paulo to shoot a TV commercial. And then everything goes wrong, beginning with a broken elevator

A Embaixatriz do Samba

HO

An experimental film on Brazilian avant-garde artist Hélio Oiticica and his works, especially the Parangolés.

O Gigante da América

A caboclo's soul wanders through purgatory (or hell), visiting many places until he boards a ship whose destination is unknown.

Hi-Fi

A deep dive into the history of São Paulo's avant-garde poetry movement, starting from fragments of the works of poet Augusto de Campos. A collage of rare scenes shows a long trail of comradery between avant-garde poetry and experimental cinema.

Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália

A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings to his suicide at the age of 28.

Infinita Tropicália

Tropicália was a Brazilian cultural movement that occurred between 1967 and 1968, inspired by Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagic ideals, pop art and the concretism. Twenty years later, this film revisits the movement and shows that Tropicalismo will never die.

Dr Dyonélio