Movies: Jairo Ferreira

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

As filmmaker Jairo Ferreira shoots his life and friends in Super 8mm he also becomes the vampire of the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo. In O VAMPIRO DA CINEMATECA Ferreira develops a poetic representation of his idea of “inventive cinema” without...

Doralice is a simple minded woman romantically fascinated by marriage. However, when she is raped by a butcher, a friend advises her to become a prostitute - and she does it. After that, all her wishes and longings will curl up into a fascinating vor...

A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry....

50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals....

A final conversation with departed actor, director and musical producer Julio Calasso Jr., a key character in the Brazilian artistic scene. At his old house in Butantã, São Paulo, Julio talks about his experiences, frustrations, joys and tragedies....

Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-...

An unemployed man gets a job as night watchman that puts him in the middle of the rising violence in his neighborhood....

The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a potentially better life is through prostitution, often with truck drivers....

Wannabe gangster Miguel Metralha becomes editor of a fading pornographic magazine that faces difficulties with the savage competition of similar imported magazines. His fresh ideas reshape the magazine as a whole, which is good for business, but upse...

An unusual look at 1978 Brasilia Film Festival and the politics that make certain films fashionable or not....

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Jairo Ferreira's view on the career of singer Raul Seixas....

A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who thinks he's Carmen Miranda, a black king, a fallen black angel, a priest, two whores, a pregnant cowboy,...

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A documentary on Brazilian musician Mario Gennari and the bond between his music's sonority and the public space of the streets of São Paulo....

Young son of a millionaire, obsessed with collecting used women's underwear, a butler who manages the mansion where the young man lives while his rich father travels, and a cousin who arrives from the countryside, obsessed with sex, are the character...

A mockumentary (or is it a fake fiction?) about journalism....

Two groups of men fighting to conquer an automobile race bowl....

Two factory workers from the outskirts of São Paulo make a trip to a bathhouse close to the city....