Adolpho Veloso

Movies

Jockey
Director of Photography
An aging jockey is determined to win one last championship, but his dream is complicated when a young rookie shows up claiming to be his son.
Mab an Tarz : fils de l’écume
Director of Photography
Mosquito
Director of Photography
Dreaming of great adventures and of standing up for his homeland, a young Portuguese man enlists in the army during World War I and is sent to the front line in Mozambique, Africa. Left behind by his platoon, he sets out on a grueling trek across the mystic Makua native land, walking for over a thousand kilometers, in search of his dream.
Rodantes
Director of Photography
A film that chronicles the lives of Tatiane, who leaves São Paulo trying to rebuild her life; Odair, a young man exploring his sexuality after leaving his parental home; and Henry, a Haitian immigrant struggling to survive amid Brazil’s poverty. As chaos unfolds in Rondônia, their paths will cross.
Tungstênio
Director of Photography
A retired army sergeant, a police officer and his wife and a drug dealer apparently have nothing in common, but they will unite for a greater good. When people start using explosives to fish on the edge of Salvador, Bahia, this group will do everything to end this environmental crime. But in the search for the paths that seem most correct, each one of them will go through more personal and moral conflicts.
On Yoga the Architecture of Peace
Director of Photography
Based on Michael O’Neill’s book of the same name, this documentary tells the story of the ten years the author spent photographing yoga’s great masters. Created as a deep extension of the original book, the film poses very human questions from our current perspective, mixing it with elements of movement and experiential sound, resulting in a new view of the Art of Yoga.
Solo
Director of Photography
Silvia is a ballerina completely consumed with dance. She locks herself in her apartment, determined to rehearse until she achieves perfection. Her compulsion makes her enter a state of growing delirium, to the point of not sleeping and hardly eating. Her rehearsals are only interrupted when she notices a dirt stain on the carpet. Silvia tries to clean it in vain. Tormented, she tears off the carpet trying to discover the origin of the stain but the stain relentlessly continues to grow and invades the apartment little by little.
Trilhas
Assistant Camera