Luiz Rosemberg Filho

Luiz Rosemberg Filho

Birth : 1943-08-24, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Death : 2019-05-19

History

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), "A$$untina 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 country's then ruling military dictatorship. After "O Santo e a Vedete" (1982), he did'nt 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.

Profile

Luiz Rosemberg Filho
Luiz Rosemberg Filho

Movies

Bobo da Corte
Producer
This monologue is the last film by Brazilian underground filmmaker Luiz Rosemberg Filho.
Bobo da Corte
Screenplay
This monologue is the last film by Brazilian underground filmmaker Luiz Rosemberg Filho.
Bobo da Corte
Director
This monologue is the last film by Brazilian underground filmmaker Luiz Rosemberg Filho.
Os Príncipes
Screenplay
Two men roam the night of Rio de Janeiro with two prostitutes in search of pleasure and violence.
Os Príncipes
Director
Two men roam the night of Rio de Janeiro with two prostitutes in search of pleasure and violence.
Jornal
Director
Landscape
Director
Gozo/Gozar
Producer
In a world troubled between capital and hunger, free thinking about the importance of enjoyment and enjoyment as an act of resistance. No longer representation as a metaphor for the relationships sold by American cinema, but life lived as a metaphor for resistance to bad politics lived in the world.
Gozo/Gozar
Screenplay
In a world troubled between capital and hunger, free thinking about the importance of enjoyment and enjoyment as an act of resistance. No longer representation as a metaphor for the relationships sold by American cinema, but life lived as a metaphor for resistance to bad politics lived in the world.
Gozo/Gozar
Director
In a world troubled between capital and hunger, free thinking about the importance of enjoyment and enjoyment as an act of resistance. No longer representation as a metaphor for the relationships sold by American cinema, but life lived as a metaphor for resistance to bad politics lived in the world.
Guerra do Paraguay
Writer
A soldier coming home after the Paraguay War meets a theater group. A shock between war and art.
Guerra do Paraguay
Director
A soldier coming home after the Paraguay War meets a theater group. A shock between war and art.
Azougue
Director
Rosemberg 70
himself
Farra dos Brinquedos
Director
Dois Casamentos
Director
Two brides wait in a church room while their marriages don't begin. But they are not anxious, as expected: they do act like ghosts in existential horror. As they wait to be called to the start of their respective ceremonies, they reflect on their relationships and lives.
Linguagem
Writer
Questions about film language.
Linguagem
Director
Questions about film language.
Ossos
Camera Operator
Ossos
Director of Photography
Sobre o Conceito de Espetáculo
Director
Desaprender
Director
Carta a uma Jovem Cineasta
Director
Fragmentos
Director
Trabalho
Director
Desertos
Director
O Discurso das Imagens
Director
As figurantes
Director
Sem Título
Director
As Últimas Imagens de Tebas
Director
Nossas Imagens
Director
Afeto
Director
Uma Carta
Director
Patrícia
Director
Sangue
Director
O Dinheiro
Director
Para Joel Yamaji
Director
Passagens
Director
Analu
Director
Cinema
Director
Vigário Geral
Director
Hollywood Sem Filtro 2
Director
Guerras
Director
Dois Atos
Director
Ana Terra
Director
Documentário
Director
As Máscaras
Director
Barbárie
Director
Imagens e Imagens
Screenplay
Criticisms on TV and its bad influence over the urban man.
Imagens e Imagens
Director
Criticisms on TV and its bad influence over the urban man.
As Sereias
Screenplay
A video essay by Luiz Rosemberg Filho on the standardization of beauty through mass media.
As Sereias
Director
A video essay by Luiz Rosemberg Filho on the standardization of beauty through mass media.
Science-fiction
Director
Experimental
Director
Pornografia
Director
An essay-film about images and politicians.
Agit-Prop
Director
A documentary about the life and work of poet and visual artist Moacy Cirne.
Cinema Novo
Director
Desobediência
Director
O Vampiro
Director
Adyós, General
Writer
Videotrip
Director
An experimental essay shot by Luiz Rosemberg Filho on video.
Alice
Director
The Saint and the Star
Co-Producer
Successful businessman, Paulo Chupadinha send his wife to a convent every year to really enjoy Brazil’s carnival. He meets a cabaret woman that wants to make a show in his little nd peaceful village. For that, however, she will have to seduce every important man of the city: the police chief, the priest and the mayor.
The Saint and the Star
Director
Successful businessman, Paulo Chupadinha send his wife to a convent every year to really enjoy Brazil’s carnival. He meets a cabaret woman that wants to make a show in his little nd peaceful village. For that, however, she will have to seduce every important man of the city: the police chief, the priest and the mayor.
Auschwitz
Director
Chronicle of an Industrial
Writer
After a life of richness, a conservative industrialist blames himself for abandoning his youth's left values. In existential misery, he keeps looking for a possible personal redemption after a foreign company buys his business. His life breaks into pieces.
Chronicle of an Industrial
Director
After a life of richness, a conservative industrialist blames himself for abandoning his youth's left values. In existential misery, he keeps looking for a possible personal redemption after a foreign company buys his business. His life breaks into pieces.
The Fall
An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.
A$$untina of the Amerikas
Editor
A$$untina of the Amerikas is a musical comedy of a prostitute that, in 24 hours, wakes up, fights her mother, puts her son in anarchy, has a date with Santa Claus, a blue bear and two girlfriends. Then she finally meets her old millionaire lover. They spend their time to talk about everyday life and make love. Based on the novels of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Wilhelm Reich.
A$$untina of the Amerikas
Cinematography
A$$untina of the Amerikas is a musical comedy of a prostitute that, in 24 hours, wakes up, fights her mother, puts her son in anarchy, has a date with Santa Claus, a blue bear and two girlfriends. Then she finally meets her old millionaire lover. They spend their time to talk about everyday life and make love. Based on the novels of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Wilhelm Reich.
A$$untina of the Amerikas
Director
A$$untina of the Amerikas is a musical comedy of a prostitute that, in 24 hours, wakes up, fights her mother, puts her son in anarchy, has a date with Santa Claus, a blue bear and two girlfriends. Then she finally meets her old millionaire lover. They spend their time to talk about everyday life and make love. Based on the novels of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Wilhelm Reich.
Imagens
Writer
Without any sounds, dialogues and with unknown actors, the images are the focus of this film. Images that want to awake, to question determinant moments, state of a system's languages, the morality of deaths, the immobility, the silence, among other subjects. Shot at the height of the Brazilian military dictatorship, it is an affront to the most diverse types of repression in that period.
Imagens
Director
Without any sounds, dialogues and with unknown actors, the images are the focus of this film. Images that want to awake, to question determinant moments, state of a system's languages, the morality of deaths, the immobility, the silence, among other subjects. Shot at the height of the Brazilian military dictatorship, it is an affront to the most diverse types of repression in that period.
The Garden of Foams
Editor
An ambassador from an outer (and rich) space comes to visit a poor planet, where he ends up being kidnapped.
The Garden of Foams
Writer
An ambassador from an outer (and rich) space comes to visit a poor planet, where he ends up being kidnapped.
The Garden of Foams
Director
An ambassador from an outer (and rich) space comes to visit a poor planet, where he ends up being kidnapped.
The Garden of Foams
Luiz Rosemberg Filho
An ambassador from an outer (and rich) space comes to visit a poor planet, where he ends up being kidnapped.
América do Sexo
Editor
Film in four segments: "Colagem", "Balanço", "Bandeira Zero" and "Sexta-Feira da Paixão, Sábado de Aleluia", having in common a strongly allegorical and gross protest tone in the approach of its subjects.
Colagem
Director
Episode of Luiz Rosemberg Filho of the feature film "America of Sex" - made in 1969
América do Sexo
Director
Film in four segments: "Colagem", "Balanço", "Bandeira Zero" and "Sexta-Feira da Paixão, Sábado de Aleluia", having in common a strongly allegorical and gross protest tone in the approach of its subjects.
Fragmentos de um Discurso Amoroso