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The Third Bank of the River

After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of his early masterpieces, offering a combinatory adaptation of five stories by the renowned Brazilian novelist João Guimarães Rosa. Openly embracing a mode of magical realism, dos Santos' celebrated film tells the story of a farming family defined by the absence of its father who abruptly abandoned his wife and children, sailing away down the river, including his son who continues to communicate with his father, speaking daily to him from the river bank. While offering an evocative vision of rural Brazil as a timeless land of mystery and solemnity, The Third Bank of the River is also bitingly satiric in the remarkable depiction of religious belief when the family moves to the city and its youngest member, a mesmerizing little girl, is revealed to be a kind of saint, capable of miraculous acts. -Harvard Film Archive

The Third Bank of the River

5.4 1994
The Oyster and the Wind

A young girl named Marcela lives with her dad, Jose, a lighthouse keeper, and old Daniel on an island. The only contact the girl has with the world outside her home is by a boat with four sailors that pays a visit to the island in order to take them supplies. Daniel, who not only protects her from her dad's strictness but also teaches her how to be literate, is her source of tenderness. Her dad thinks she should be away from the world - though she wishes she could spend a few days in town. Then one day, as she has her first period and becomes a woman, she starts feeling sexuality through the blowing wind, which she talks to.

The Oyster and the Wind

6.2 1997
Fatman & Robada

Bored with his mediocre life, millionaire BRAULIO GROSELHA has a strange dream, where a masked figure urges him to fight crime using the code name FATMAN. He summons his butler, Mongogildo, as his new partner: ROBADA. The dynamic duo soon becomes a sensation in the fight against crime and the target of the evil plans of Dr. Gore and his henchman KARAS. After challenging Karas and his Ninja helpers, Fatman and Robada must face Dr. Gore's new creation: the gigantic Monster-Chicken!

Fatman & Robada

0.0 1997
Vomiting Lysergic Slugs

This short exists only for one reason: I wanted to test the possibilities of the iris of a defective VHS camcorder that I had and the fading of the colors that resulted from VHS to VHS copies (this film is not black and white, it is faded color ). As I had no story to film, I improvised as an actor (Braun kept holding the camera for me), I walked from side to side, subtitled the whole thing with a poem I had written on and… Why not show the results of these experiences for everyone who is interested in seeing you.

Vomiting Lysergic Slugs

4.0 1997