Eder Santos

Santos Dumont, O Céu na Cabeça (2024)

Uakti (2024)

Ironland (2022)

After living in the United States for decades, Brazilian geographer Camila decides to return to her native state of Minas Gerais when a mining-related environmental disaster strikes the area. A dam burst, destroying several villages with heavily polluted w ...

Diário Dentro da Noite (2022)

During the night lived in 2020 with denialism, an actor in rehearsal and confinement, his and the character who rehearses, one of the thousand offered by the novel "A lua vem da Asia" by Campos de Carvalho. How to circumvent the taxes imposed by space, tim ...

Maikan - A Terra da Raposa (2020)

Barravento Novo (2017)

Barravento Novo depicts correspondences between Antônio Pitanga—a Cinema Novo actor seen here delivering lines from Glauber Rocha's first feature, Barravento, from 1962—and his daughter, Camila Pitanga, a well-known actor and filmmaker working today. ...

Blue Desert (2013)

A man who is tormented by his intuitions and by dreams goes away to find answers to his discomfort. Revelations are made to him along his path, until he meets his soul mate and is prepared to the Blue Desert. ...

Neptune's Choice (2003)

Neptune's Choice is Santos' self-described "letter to Amsterdam." With lush images, elliptical text and a haunting sound collage, this poetic work explores the artist's impressions of the cosmopolitan city. Defining Amsterdam through its historical and con ...

Projeto Apollo (2000)

Combining artfully designed sets and digital processing, Santos recreates the historic Apollo lunar landing for this essayistic video, which uses simulation to interrogate representation. Relating a long-circulated rumor that the landing was actually faked ...

Nuno Ramos: Acidente Geográfico - Investigações (2000)

Framed by Curtains (1998)

Santos bases his self-described "video letter from Hong Kong" on the ambiguity of the word "frame." He refers to the picture or camera frame, as well as to the variable frame rate of digitally manipulated video, and, finally, to the act of framing as a pro ...

Tumitinhas (1998)

In this haunting work, Santos creates an elegiac mood that suggests both intimacy and loss. Based on a poem by Sandra Penna, which was inspired by a children's song about a couple who has broken up, this tape overturns the sunny idealism and rhymes typical ...

Enredando as pessoas (1995)

The story about a prophet who sees beyond the average eye. ...

Janauba (1993)

Santos constructs a lyrical meditation on his native Brazilian landscape, its culture and its inhabitants. Santos pays tribute to two important historical figures from Brazilian cinema — Humberto Mauro and Mario Peixoto — and their films The Ox-cart an ...

I Cannot Go to Africa Because I Am on Duty (1990)

In this vivid pastiche of images, music and text, Santos addresses technology and image-making in the context of cultural formation. Writes Santos: "Technology is explored in terms of information speed — a feature that makes popular absorption and unders ...

Lies & Humiliations (1988)

Lies & Humiliations is a haunting and lyrical work that merges poetic language and Super-8 images to invoke memory and its ghosts. Infused with an almost ethereal light, images of a house evoke its past — an old-fashioned kitchen and dining room, an anci ...

Europe in Five Minutes (1986)

A short film by Eder Santos ...

Força de Elite - O Filme (2021)