José Celso Martinez Corrêa

Kopenawa: Sonhar a Terra-Floresta (2024)

Peréio, Eu Te Odeio! (2023)

23 years in the making, "Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!" is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial artist and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family, and society members who hate him. ...

Cafi (2021)

It portrays the work of Carlos Filho, Cafi, a photographer from Recife, who for more than 40 years has dedicated himself to recording a large part of the events of dance, theater and Brazilian popular music. Recordings, concerts, tours and rehearsals by im ...

Fédro (2021)

Twenty years after his debut as an actor, Brazil's sweetheart Reynaldo Gianechini meets his mentor, legendary director José Celso Martinez Corrêa for a first reading of Plato's Phaedrus. ...

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina (2021)

In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages ​​from the ...

Nas Asas da Pan Am (2020)

Silvio Tendler goes through his life remembering the movements he was part of during the brazilian dictatorship and his adherence to socialism. ...

Race Antenna (2020)

In 1979, while Brazil was going through the troubled moment of the Amnesty Law, Glauber Rocha directed the program Abertura for TV Tupi, in which he interrogated a contradictory and boiling Brazil head-on, full of utopias but always under the weight of sec ...

Salve o Prazer! (2020)

Horácio (2019)

Horacio, an old smuggler hiding from the law, lives in a surreal, baroque apartment with Petulia, his daughter, and Milton, his favorite thug. While he keeps his daughter locked up in her bedroom, Horácio flirts with his goon, for whom he has had represse ...

How Do You See Me? (2017)

How Do You See Me? is a Brazilian documentary feature that entwines both experienced actors and beginners to explore the hardships and the happiness that are inherent to the job when detached from the glam and glitz of the gossip industry, creating a diver ...

Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone (2017)

Tropicália: 50 Anos (2017)

Saudade (2017)

Paulo Autran – O Senhor dos Palcos (2017)

A portrait of the evolution of theater in the 20th century and a deep reflection on the art of acting through the career of Paulo Autran (1922-2007), one of the greatest actors in Brazil. ...

Macumba Antropofaga (2017)

Based on Oswald de Andrade's Anthropophagous Manifesto, Macumba was a hit with the audience that participated and interacted more with the work at each presentation. ...

The Clove and The Rose (2017)

Documentary on Rosamaria Murtinho and Mauro Mendonça's 60-year long career in Brazilian theater, film and television. The film not only runs through the career of these artists, but also paints a portrait of a generation that rose alongside them and that ...

Pitanga (2016)

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and ...

Ralé: The Lower Depths (2016)

Young directors are filming "The Exhibitionist" in the middle of a farm in a paradise-like region. The film poetically investigates the Brazilian soul, with the Amazon as the center of the world, reflecting on existential issues, the right to sexual freedo ...

Zé Celso: Tupy or not Tupy (2015)

From the testimonies of Zé Celso himself, and excerpts from the play "Walmor Y Cacilda 64 - Robogolpe", which contains autobiographical elements, as well as from essays and scenes from older pieces by him, it is possible to know a little more about the li ...

Satyrianas – 78 horas em 78 minutos (2012)

A document of one of the greatest cultural events of Latin America in an innovative way, the film mixes documentary and fiction to pay homage to the artists of the contemporary Brazilian theater, who come together in the city of São Paulo every year to ce ...

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 ...

Pela Desordem Natural das Coisas (2012)

A deep dive into the life and work of Brazilian actress Maria Alice Vergueiro. The documentary explores her turbulent beginning in the theatrical world, highlighting her strength and courage during the Military dictatorship in Brazil, which culminated in t ...

Evoé: Portrait of an Anthropophage (2011)

A film that mixes labyrinthine recent testimonies and historical images of the career of the tropicalista director, actor and playwright Zé Celso, of Teatro Oficina, one of the greatest personalities of the Brazilian arts of all time. The documentary acqu ...

Zé[s] (2010)

A cosmic-semantic coincidence. Ze, Theater, Workshop. Zé Celso Martinez Corrêa, director of Teat (r) o Oficina Uzyna Uzona, from São Paulo. Zé Perdiz, a mechanic from Brasília whose workshop is transformed into a theater. Parallel lives. Cinematic enc ...

Travessia (2009)

The crossing of generations under the influence of military dictatorship and political openness. Documentary highlights the role of the organizers of the March for the Family with God for Freedom in 1964. Based on stories of life under the military dictato ...

Palavra (En)Cantada (2009)

A journey in the history of the Brazilian songbook with a look at the relationship between poetry and music, sewing testimonials of great names of our culture, musical performances and amazing research of images. ...

Diário De Aquário (2009)

The pages of the artist Judith Malina's diary, imprisoned by the military dictatorship during the season of the Living Theater group in Brazil. The documentary chronicles the visit of the actress and her theatrical company to the country. ...

A Paz é Dourada (2008)

The film chronicles both the life and work of Brazilian author and engineer Euclides da Cunha and a failed attempt at directing his biopic in the 1980s and 1990s. Footage from the unfinished film is included alongside archive and documentary material. ...

Embodiment of Evil (2008)

Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to pris ...

Milagrez (2008)

Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film. ...

Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal (2008)

This film shines a light at the story of Jards Macalé, polemic artist and controversial character of Brazilian culture over the last four decades. Author of songs such as "Vapor Barato" and "Movimento dos Barcos", a partner in crime of poet Waly Salomão, ...

The Milky Way (2007)

A modern love story set in Sao Paulo about Heitor, a writer and literature professor, and Julia, a theatre student turned veterinarian. A fight over the telephone propels Heitor into a journey through the chaotic city streets to reconcile with Julia. Their ...

Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day (2006)

The film has Gal's career as its guiding principle, drawing a parallel with the movement of which the singer was the muse and one of the main interpreters, and reaching the present day. ...

Dry Movie (2005)

Weatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, devastated by the drought. He is forced to face the geographic elements and his own memories. ...

The Peddler's Backpack (2005)

From Italian set designer to Brazilian stage director, Gianni Ratto, born in Italy in 1916 and based in Brazil since 1954, retraces the geographical path of his life, accompanied by his daughter, passing through Genoa, Milan, Florence, São Paulo, and Rio ...

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth (2003)

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues. ...

Os Sertões - A Terra (2002)

From 2000 to 2007, Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona worked on the staging of Euclides da Cunha's epic book, Os Sertões, which describes the 19th Century War of Canudos in the Brazilian "sertão"(backlands). The result was the pentalogy of plays: A Terra (2002 ...

Lara (2002)

The life of Brazilian actress Odete Lara, muse of the movement called Cinema Novo in Brazil, who exchanged stardom for a quiet and religious life. ...

Boca de Ouro (1999)

Boca de Ouro was born in a back room of a dance hall, and his first crib was a bathroom sink where his mother left him. The boy grows up and becomes a feared and respected bookie—an almost mythological figure in the community where he lives. Fascinated b ...

Hunting Season (1988)

Hunting Season deals with the wave of homosexual murders that plagued São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s. With street statements and cultural and artistic figures such, such as Zé Celso, Jorge Mautner, Roberto Piva and others. ...

Vianinha (1987)

Infinita Tropicália (1986)

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 ...

A Caminho das Índias (1982)

Fênix (1980)

A$$untina of the Amerikas (1976)

A$$untina of the Amerikas is a musical comedy of a prostitute that, in 24 hours, wakes up, fights her mother, puts her son in anarchy, has a date with Santa Claus, a blue bear and two girlfriends. Then she finally meets her old millionaire lover. They spen ...

Um Homem Célebre (1974)

Semana de Arte Moderna (1972)

The Awakening of the Beast (1970)

A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine '60s drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity. ...

América do Sexo (1969)

Film in four segments: "Colagem", "Balanço", "Bandeira Zero" and "Sexta-Feira da Paixão, Sábado de Aleluia", having in common a strongly allegorical and gross protest tone in the approach of its subjects. ...

Macumba Antropofaga (2017)

Based on Oswald de Andrade's Anthropophagous Manifesto, Macumba was a hit with the audience that participated and interacted more with the work at each presentation. ...

Os Sertões: A Luta II - Do Desmassacre ao Reinício (2006)

Dedicated to "all the power of the Un-massacre of Art and to the effects of the Trans-Human power of the Crowd," the staging of the last part of the book deals with the fourth and last expedition by the Brazilian National Army to the Northeastern "sertão. ...

Os Sertões: A Luta I (2005)

From 2000 to 2007, Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona worked on the staging of Euclides da Cunha's epic book, Os Sertões, which describes the 19th Century War of Canudos in the Brazilian "sertão," lead by Antônio Conselheiro. The final result was a pentalogy ...

Os Sertões: O Homem I — do Pré-homem à Revolta (2003)

The second play, O Homem I, is about the vigorous embrace of the winner, the Celtic European Colonizer, copulating with the defeated, with the slaves from the ships, forming the "Typeless-Brazilian" type. Mixtures of all kinds find their space in the stage ...

Os Sertões - A Terra (2002)

From 2000 to 2007, Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona worked on the staging of Euclides da Cunha's epic book, Os Sertões, which describes the 19th Century War of Canudos in the Brazilian "sertão"(backlands). The result was the pentalogy of plays: A Terra (2002 ...

Boca de Ouro (1999)

Boca de Ouro was born in a back room of a dance hall, and his first crib was a bathroom sink where his mother left him. The boy grows up and becomes a feared and respected bookie—an almost mythological figure in the community where he lives. Fascinated b ...

The King of the Candle (1982)

Filming of the historical montage of Oswald de Andrade's play, where decadent millionaires, depraved children, corrupt and implacable capitalists are the characters interpreted by the Grupo Oficina, in a celebrated theatrical performance from 1967, fundame ...

25 (1977)

Filmed in 16 mm, 25 (Vinte Cinco) is a production that involved the collaborative effort from people from Brazil, Mozambique, Portugal and France. It follows the decolonisation process of Mozambique (the aftermath of the colonial war and of the fall of the ...

O parto (1975)

Documentary based on archive material focusing on the dictatorial regimen in Portugal and its fall with the "Revolução dos Cravos" (Carnation Revolution), in 1974, after 48 years of Salazarism. ...

Prata Palomares (1972)

While waiting for directions, two revolutionaries hide in a church, where they meet a woman who wants to have a son with one of them. ...