Hélio Oiticica

Macaléia (2023)

Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy (2020)

A totally Cardoso-appropriated footage delirium, done as a tribute to US independent cinema's original rebel. In the end, Corman himself blesses Cardoso by saying: "You blended horror, sex and humour very well. And particularly the editing is very good bec ...

Memórias do Grupo Opinião (2019)

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous ...

Tropicália: 50 Anos (2017)

Dunas do Barato (2017)

A rescue of the history of Ipanema beach in the 1970s, when the construction of a pier changed the landscape and created fertile soil for a generation of artists and sportsmen. ...

Inside Hélio Oiticica (2012)

Hélio Oiticica was one of the artists that most united reflection with artistic creation. His ideas and propositions, expressed not only in texts but also in statements and interviews, revolutionized art and culture, transforming him into one of the most ...

Tropicália (2012)

Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thoug ...

A Miss e o Dinossauro (2005)

A short documentary on Belair, an independent Brazilian film company that lasted for only five months in 1970. ...

Heliorama (2004)

A collage of newsreels, trailers, clips and other visionary and unseen fragments of sight and sound regarding the late plastic artist Helio Oititica. ...

At Midnight with Glauber Rocha (1997)

A late-1960s interview with Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, mixed in avant-garde style with scenes from his films and clips from fellow filmmaker José Mojica Marins and visual artist Hélio Oiticica. ...

HO (1979)

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

Arte hoje: histórias verídicas (1976)

Loucura e Cultura (1973)

Documentary with fragments and records about the boundaries between art and counterculture, based on a debate held at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, in October 1968. ...

Cosmococa (1973)

In 1973, exiles from Brazil during the military dictatorship, artist Hélio Oiticica and filmmaker Neville D'Almeida lock themselves in an apartment in Manhattan and fantasize a series of iconic sensory installations called quasi-cinema - experience blocks ...

New York, 70s (1973)

Experimental short film, shot in Super 8. ...

Câncer (1972)

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and society. ...

Lágrima Pantera: A Míssil (1972)

A silent film shot in New York in 1972, including scenes in Hélio Oiticica's apartment. Last film made in exile by Bressane, it mimics the experimental concept of "quasi-cinema" by Hélio Oiticica. It consists of a fragmentary experience of freedom, in su ...

Apocalipopótese (1969)

Apocalipopótese documents a public art happening organized by Rogério Duarte with Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Pape. Duarte coined the event's title by fusing the words apotheosis, hypothesis, and apocalypse, in order to describe a series of artistic action ...

Arte Pública (1968)

A film regarding the works, the studios and the performances of Abrahan Palatnik, Antonio Dias, Carlos Vergara, Glauco Rodrigues, Helio Oiticica, Ligia Pape, Lygia Clark, Pedro Escosteguy, Rubens Gerchman, Tomoshige Kusuno, Wesley Duke Lee, and the São Pa ...

Heliorama (2004)

A collage of newsreels, trailers, clips and other visionary and unseen fragments of sight and sound regarding the late plastic artist Helio Oititica. ...

Razor in the Flesh (1997)

The story of three characters in a brothel room: the prostitute Neusa Sueli, the gigolo Vado and the homosexual Veludo speak of their lives and expose their marginality. ...

Cosmococa (1973)

In 1973, exiles from Brazil during the military dictatorship, artist Hélio Oiticica and filmmaker Neville D'Almeida lock themselves in an apartment in Manhattan and fantasize a series of iconic sensory installations called quasi-cinema - experience blocks ...

New York, 70s (1973)

Experimental short film, shot in Super 8. ...

Agrippina é Roma - Manhattan (1972)

In Manhattan and Wall Street's majestic, neoclassical architecture, characters try their luck, ambiguously posted between the mundane and transcendence. ...

Mangúe-Bangúe (1971)

The quasi-fictional story of transgender sex workers living in Rio de Janeiro's swampy red light district, who are joined by a group of hippies and a runaway stockbroker, "Mangue-Bangue" is the paradigmatic expression of the post-1968 spirit of desbunde, t ...