Luiz Rosemberg Filho

A Brazilian filmmaker visual artist and essayist who worked extensively in film and video Luiz Rosemberg Filho 1943 2019 is best kown for his features O Jardim das Espumas 1971 Auntina das Amérikas 1976 Crônica de um Industrial 1978 and Guerra do Paraguay 2017 Rosemberg began his work with the arts as a painter during his teenage years having his first contact with cinema during the early 1960s His first film Balada da Página 3 is now lost After releasing O Jardim das Espumas in the early 1970s he moved to Paris where he stayed until 1974 and became a close friend to fellow Brazilian director Glauber Rocha By the late 1980s Rosemberg was already transitioning his medium from film to video with his works assuming an even more experimental essayist nature In the 2000s he embraced the digital medium He was commonly paired with the Brazilian Cinema Marginal movement even though he rejected this framing for his work His films O Jardim das Espumas and Crônica de um Industrial were censored by his countrys then ruling military dictatorship After O Santo e a Vedete 1982 he didnt release a feature until Dois Casamentos 2014 Through all of this period and after it though he continued to make short films and produced a number of collages many of which have film as a subject At December 2017 then aged 74 Rosemberg began publishing a series of Facebook posts containing his memories and thoughts on film his friends travels politics women censorship war love sex and the passing of time He published those texts until February 2019 with a total of 404 posts that were later compiled into selected writings by his longtime colaborator DoP Renaud Leenhardt Shortly after releasing Os Príncipes 2018 Rosemberg was hospitalized and submited to a surgery that would remove an hernia He passed away in 2019 having finished the editing process of Bobo da Corte 2019 his last film just before his death