Rogério Sganzerla

Rogério Sganzerla 1946 2004 was a Brazilian filmmaker and one of the main names of the Cinema de Invenção or Cinema Marginal underground movement Influenced by Orson Welles JeanLuc Godard and José Mojica Marins Sganzerla often used clichés from film noir and pornochanchadas Irony narrative subversion and collage were trademarks of his film aesthetics Sganzerla was born in Joaçaba in the state of Santa Catarina but moved with his family to São Paulo at a very young age living there for most of his life During the 1960s he wrote for the newspaper O Estado de S Paulo The State of S Paulo as film critic quickly being recognised as a young talent In 1967 Sganzerla directed his first short film Documentário Documentary winning an award at the JBMesbla 16mm Festival Documentário was quickly followed up by his first featurelength film in 1968 O Bandido da Luz Vermelha The Red Light Bandit which became a landmark for the movement known as Cinema de Invenção or Cinema Marginal and is still Sganzerlas most wellknown film In 1970 he founded the BelAir Filmes production company along with fellow Cinema de Invenção filmmaker Júlio Bressane Headed by Sganzerla the company produced his films Copacabana Mon Amour Carnaval na Lama and Sem Essa Aranha and Bressanes A Família do Barulho Barão Olavo o Horrível and Cuidado Madame all shot in Brazil during four months of 1970 and edited abroad in England when both Sganzerla and Bressane were banished from their home country by the then rulling military dictatorship While in exile both Sganzerla and Bressane continued to shoot new films Sganzerlas personal obsessions such as director Orson Welles and his infamous visit to Brazil and musicians Noel Rosa and Jimi Hendrix appear in many of his films going as far as being the main subject in some of them In 1985 Sganzerla directed the docufiction Nem Tudo É Verdade Its Not All True about Orson Welles arrival in Brazil to film his unfinished documentary Its All True Sganzerla died in 2004 of a brain tumor shortly after finishing his last film O Signo do Caos The Sign of Chaos Description above from the Wikipedia article Rogério Sganzerla licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia