Glauber Rocha

(Bahia, Brazil, 1939-Rio de Janeiro, 1981)

A filmmaker, he was part of cinema novo and contributed what he calls “his emotional contribution” to the knowledge of Brazil through a modern aesthetic and his political commitment. The parameters of its creation were defined when the country was experiencing struggles for social reforms and left-wing nationalist projects. Throughout his work, he expresses a question directed at our time from the perspective of the Third World and reiterates his focus on collective issues. Social life is conceived as facing crises, breakups, promotions and falls. In his writing he crystallizes, in metaphors, the global image of the crisis experienced by the characters. A cinema determined to project dramas into history, incorporating myths and, at the same time, delving into the analysis of class interests and the political maneuvers of the powerful. At the epicenter of his system he captured the extreme experience of hunger, the source of violence.