Matheus Rocha

Birth : 1979-03-13, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

History

Brazilian cinematographer.

Movies

Screens
Director of Photography
Nine Brazilian digital influencers see themselves stuck at home using social media as the only tool to have their voices heard.
Abyssal Fish
Director of Photography
ABYSSAL FISH is a creative film in the border between fiction, real and performance through the artistic work of Luís Capucho. A singular artist who survived the time when the HIV represented the death stigma. Building an amazing work of poetic power post­disease, Capucho surpasses the physical sequels that have left him mute and without part of his body movements for a while, until the current partial recovery.
A Alegria é a Prova dos Nove
Director of Photography
A film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda Ícone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker, as she defines herself, and Lírio Terron, a human rights activist. In fact, a journey that is not over in their lives. Jarda Icon teaches classes on how women can obtain their own orgasm. With her group of disciples and friends Ana Brasil, Sheyla Fernanda, Caroline Sylvie and Lakshmi she develops self-sustainable feminist and artistic projects. The film is political, but not at all politicized in the traditional sense. It is an ode to the underground and counterculture movements, it is a hymn to freedom, and its title is also a tribute to Oswald d Andrade, one of the main names in Brazilian modernism.
The Cutest and Funniest Animals in the World
Director of Photography
Jorge is 70 years old and is one of the most capricious and dedicated janitors at the Paradise Motel, except for a single detail: He secretly records the audios of the room’s guests. Selling these audios to Alberto earns him an extra income as well as affection, even though Jorge no longer remembers what his own pleasure sounds like.
Faith and Fury
Director of Photography
The documentary starts from the religious conflicts that exist in Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte's favelas and suburbs to analyze the growing conservative wave that hovers over the country.
Os Ossos da Saudade
Director of Photography
A film about absence, narrated from the experiences of people who experience feelings of absence and distance, spread across Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde. The body, landscape, memory and time. Stories and places built with remembrance, oblivion and invention. A journey through the territories of memory, representation and belonging.
Booyah!
Director of Photography
Movido A Futebol
Screenplay
Evinho Bonfim had spastic cerebral palsy at birth. Mobility difficulties did not stop him from loving football and Milan. That's how, at the age of 14, he founded Milan dos Coelhos. For more than two decades, Coach Evinho's project has helped to change the reality of children and young people in the Coelhos neighborhood, in Recife. The documentary shows how a lowland team survives in the face of a lack of sponsorship and how the coach is inserted into society through football.
The Part of the World That Belongs to Me
Camera Operator
Documentary about dreams and desires of ordinary people, about fuels that move us daily: happiness, recognition, financial stability, marriage, health, fun, a few pounds less, enjoyment, overcoming or even a simple and humble kite.
The Part of the World That Belongs to Me
Director of Photography
Documentary about dreams and desires of ordinary people, about fuels that move us daily: happiness, recognition, financial stability, marriage, health, fun, a few pounds less, enjoyment, overcoming or even a simple and humble kite.
Dia de Reis
Director of Photography
Just Past Noon on a Tuesday
Director of Photography
Two strangers visit the penthouse of a recently deceased lover, only to find themselves learning more about each other.
A Finada Mãe da Madame
Director of Photography
Lúcio comes back home drunk and tired after a party late into the night and has a fight with his wife, Terezinha. Then, a butler shows up at their door to inform them Terezinha's mother has died.
Elon Doesn't Believe in Death
Director of Photography
As he does every single day, Elon goes to meet his wife at her workplace, but she is not there. He doesn’t find her at home as well, so he starts to retrace the path Madalena makes daily. In the morning after, Elon goes to the police station and files a report, runs into hospitals, morgues. Alone, he wanders through a metropolis, searching for news about the sudden and mysterious disappearance of his wife.
A Noite Escura da Alma
Cinematography
A series of interviews of torture survivors from Brazil dictorship are mixed with performance.
Let Your Braids Down, Rapunzel
Director
Telma and Luisa decide to shoot a videodance.
The Life of Matches Is Not a Piece of Cake, Kitty
Director of Photography
Marcos hosts Robert in his house – and falls in love with him. When Michael Jackson dies, Marcos goes sick and Lígia, his sister, comes to help them.
New Dubai
Director of Photography
In a middle-class neighbourhood in a city in the countryside of Brazil, the real estate speculation is a menace to the affective memory of a group of friends. Their answer to this imminent transformation is to fuck in the construction sites. And what about love? Is love just a construction?
The Invisible Collection
Director of Photography
The young Beto ventures to the Brazilian countryside in search of a collection of rare drawings. There he meets Samir, the collector, and his family ruined by the demise of the cocoa plantations. The journey and the encounter will irrevocably change the young man’s soul.
We Were Born Today, When the Sky Was Heavy with Iron and Poison
Director of Photography
We Were Born Today, When the Sky Was Heavy with Iron and Poison.
We Were Born Today, When the Sky Was Heavy with Iron and Poison
Tata, a criada
We Were Born Today, When the Sky Was Heavy with Iron and Poison.
Terno
Director of Photography
One day away of Marcelo's wedding, the tailor, the groom and his father will have to correct much more than the suit's measures.
Terno
Camera Operator
One day away of Marcelo's wedding, the tailor, the groom and his father will have to correct much more than the suit's measures.
Breath
Director of Photography
Breath is a creative documentary about human existence and the mysteries of life and death, seen in the everyday life of a small village in the middle of nowhere, in the countryside of Brazil, where families have lived for years, almost completely isolated from contact with the outside world. Wind, dust, mountains, silence and time… Man and nature live together there in both harmony and conflict, amidst what is and what could be, in the vastness of a landscape grander than vision can grasp.
Sanã
Director of Photography
An albino boy named Sanã lives on the island of Lençóis, an untouched paradise in northeastern Maranhão state. Surrounded by dunes, he is mimicked in a very white landscape, under a scalding sun from which he cannot escape. In this microcosm ruled by wind and the tides, Sanã builds his own private world.
Residence
Director of Photography
This is the story of Dona Virginia, an elderly woman who awaits the expropriation of her house. Year after year, the government threatens to destroy the place, her past and her memories.
Meu amigo que trabalhou com Manoel de Oliveira, que fez cem anos
Director of Photography
Meu amigo que trabalhou com Manoel de Oliveira, que fez cem anos
The Comforting Hand
Director of Photography
At her only child's 9th birthday, Lucas, Estela, a telemarketing operator, plans a party that has minimal chances of success.
Uma Primavera
Director of Photography
At Lara's 13th birthday, her mother takes her to a picnic in the park. Everything goes well until the girl disappears, leaving the mother in complete despair.
Uma Primavera
Camera Operator
At Lara's 13th birthday, her mother takes her to a picnic in the park. Everything goes well until the girl disappears, leaving the mother in complete despair.
Hard Labor
Director of Photography
After her husband loses his job, Helena opens her own grocery store. Soon, increasingly strange events begin to plague her store, making her question her sanity.
Corpos Celestes
Second Unit Director of Photography
An astronomer is forced to leave the city where he lives in order to save his relationship. He ends up returning to the place he never intended to come back: The small town where he was born, stage of a great childhood trauma. Once there, he will discover the truth that will change his life forever.
Corpos Celestes
Video Assist Operator
An astronomer is forced to leave the city where he lives in order to save his relationship. He ends up returning to the place he never intended to come back: The small town where he was born, stage of a great childhood trauma. Once there, he will discover the truth that will change his life forever.
Pandemonium
Director of Photography
Náufragos
Camera Operator
Odete tries to guess where her husband would be hidden. But there is no possible hiding place.
Náufragos
Director of Photography
Odete tries to guess where her husband would be hidden. But there is no possible hiding place.
Náufragos
Director
Odete tries to guess where her husband would be hidden. But there is no possible hiding place.
Xetá
Director of Photography
Polis
Researcher
The horror and sublime of the urban environment are in constant change, in a time where nothing is finished or definite. Construction and destruction, systole and diastole are expressed in the poetics of the contemporary polis.
Polis
Director of Photography
The horror and sublime of the urban environment are in constant change, in a time where nothing is finished or definite. Construction and destruction, systole and diastole are expressed in the poetics of the contemporary polis.
The Shadows
Director of Photography
In a country house, the patient and her husband get involved with the young psychiatrist. The noises of the forest surround them.
A Bela P...
Director of Photography
The human body in 5 parts.
A Stem
Camera Operator
Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm.
A Stem
Director of Photography
Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm.
A Criada da Condessa
Camera Department Manager
Tales of the Countess' maid, who helps her with a dark secret
Shiro
Director
Andrei is struck by a revelation when he finds himself staring at a pine tree. At the same time, Olga, Mascha and Irina each hide a deadly secret that no human being should ever discover.