Movies: Elyseu Visconti

A short documentary on Belair, an independent Brazilian film company that lasted for only five months in 1970....

Daily scenes of a grotesque family living in the metaphorical island of Babaloo....

23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial artist and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family, and society members who hate him...

A 1972 Portuguese language drama/adventure film written and directed by Júlio Bressane, starring Rosa Dias and Elyseu Visconti....

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A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla....

Rogério Sganzerla’s lost film. The only existing copy was lost in 1992 and the negatives are lost. It tells about the history of Betty Bomba, an exhibitionist woman....

A millionaire lives in a sinister cottage where strange events unfold. A damned creature, he transforms himself in a werewolf and leads a following whose adepts spread horror and despair in the neighboring city, becoming themselves a clan of assassin...

Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. Part of it is missing sound and final editing because the director was forced to leave Brazil. Horror and humor to deal with the subject of insanity: “In the end everyone le...

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

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Documentary short that synthesizes the evolution of comic books since Yellow Kid until Spirit....