Glauber Rocha

Glauber Rocha (1939–1981) was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter who helped lead Cinema Novo. His politically charged films, including Black God, White Devil, joined formal experimentation with critiques of colonialism and inequality.

Black God, White Devil: A 1964 Brazilian film by Glauber Rocha about a peasant couple caught between a preacher and a bandit. This landmark film joins sertão mythology, religious imagery, and revolt in a defining Rocha work.
Aesthetics of Hunger: A 1965 manifesto by Glauber Rocha arguing that Latin American cinema should express hunger through disruptive form. It states Rocha’s case for making deprivation visible rather than disguising it with polished spectacle.
Cinema Novo: A Brazilian film movement of the 1960s and 1970s that pursued low-budget, politically engaged filmmaking. Rocha became one of its leading directors and its most influential theorists.
Walter Salles: A Brazilian film director whose works include Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries. Salles’s international career belongs to a Brazilian cinema transformed by the legacy Rocha helped establish.
Entranced Earth: A 1967 film by Glauber Rocha about a fictional Latin American country ruled by political upheaval. Its fractured narrative and political allegory extend Rocha’s critique from the rural poor to national elites.
Third Cinema: A political film movement that sought to challenge colonialism and class power through independent cinema. Rocha’s anti-colonial filmmaking shares its rejection of cinema as passive entertainment.
Nelson Pereira dos Santos: A Brazilian film director whose socially engaged work helped prepare the way for Cinema Novo. His films offered Rocha’s generation a model for confronting Brazilian inequality on screen.
Fernando Solanas: An Argentine film director and screenwriter, co-author of the manifesto Towards a Third Cinema. Solanas articulated a related anti-colonial film project alongside Rocha’s influential ideas.
Antonio das Mortes: A 1969 Brazilian film by Glauber Rocha about a hired killer confronting rural power and violence. Rocha revisits a character from Black God, White Devil to transform folklore into political myth.
Political modernism: An artistic approach that uses formal experimentation to expose or challenge political power. His broken narratives and striking compositions make political conflict part of film form.

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