Júlio Bressane

Urtiga (Milton Gonçalves) and Santamaria (Hugo Carvana) are two mean, sadistic and cold blood killers. Santamaria claims that he has seen an angel, and is very mystic. They escape from the police siege in a slum in a hill and hide in an isolated house. When the owner arrives with two friends, they kill the man and submit the two women to many humiliations, before killing them. While moving to another place, they leave a trail of blood, cowardly executing many persons. (imdb)

A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gays, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de Janeiro. When the slut threatens the other two to stop supporting them, they decide to find an odalisque as an alternative to keep their easy life. (imdb)

A comedy about two women who become serial killers

In this experimental work, there is no story, just a device trampled the classic horror films with several characters, including an old maniac baron by corpses, murder and rape.

A guy walks through a desert

A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings. (imdb)

Three friends, Hilda, Matilda and Gaspar, meet in a rundown downtown apartment during a weekend to chat, drink and experience pleasure. (imdb)

There are many concurrent plots in this film. The main one being the one in which a desperate guy kills his parents with an open razor and then goes to the movies. At the same time, other violent events happen when two girls realize they are in love with each other. (imdb)

Irreverent adaptation of great writer Machado de Assis's masterpiece "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas"

Bressane's poetic version of Cleopatra's life.

A caboclo's soul wanders through purgatory (or hell), visiting many places until he boards a ship whose destination is unknown. (imdb)

Two people in a house. Then a rat comes...

The story of a civil servant who lives with his elderly mother. Falling in love with a corrupt politician's young and rich daughter, he abandons himself to crazy and violent situations. (imdb)

Documentary about Brazilian pop diva Maria Bethânia, in one of her first shows in Rio de Janeiro. The film also show scenes of her daily life and meetings with other musicians.

The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade. (imdb)

History of father Antônio Vieira, born in Portugal, in 1608, and who died in Salvador, Brasil, in 1697. Considered one of the greatest Portuguese writers, master in Rhetoric, he was persecuted and condemned by Portuguese Inquisition for his position against slavery and colonialism, as well his sympathy for the Hebrews. (imdb)

The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with potent voices ruled, was in a way a forerunner of Bossa Nova style. (imdb)

Provocative essay on repetition of the cinematographic image, starting from the obsession of a man, played by Guara, repeatedly killing the same type of woman in same places, the same way. Filmed on the streets of London. (epipoca.uol.com.br)

Monstro Caraíba is my view of Brazilian protohistory, a blanket of bits of legends of ancient America... the cinema that interests people is the cinema of discovery, of the retina's decentralization. The key to the film is the discovery of a new, original bone structure of America. The discovery I get my information from legends of a series of dinosaur bones which I encountered and then put together in the film. (J. Bressane).

Sexy blonde meets a man who calls himself "the king of the pack". He had been told about this relationship by a fortuneteller. (imdb)

Story with some autobiographical touches taken from director's life. Miramar is a teenager raised by his parents to be an artist. But a tragedy occurs in his life: both his parents commit suicide. He then discovers the movies, and dreams of being a director. (imdb)

An improvisation of poetic art featuring Bressane conversing with Grande Otelo, the star of Chanchada. It is also a total provocation against Brazilian cinema: "Art is conflict, abnormality, to me cinema is eminently erotic". "Viola Chinesa establishes the rhythm of Bressane's later filmed dialogs (ìwith all the eras in my brain"). (KG)

Bressane, in the role of movie club reporter, interviews Radar, an editor of porno chanchadas, in a red light district of Rio. A parody of television reporting and a reflection on censorship, with nods to Edison's kinetoscope and Pessoa. (KG)

She is a fortune teller, he is a killer on the run. He gives her a ride and an tragic love affair begins. (imdb)

Bressane's second London film, shot in six days in his apartment. (KG)

The invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressane's parents at and around the address. These are interlarded with scenes from his films made between 1957 and 2005, bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century; in which the winding road featured in almost every shot structures the new landscape behind the Aperana, which means 'wrong road'. (imdb)

Áurea, a lonely teacher, starts a unique relationship with a boy she meets by chance. As a sensitive soul, she finds herself attracted to his touching beauty, which leads to lost. In the days following their first conversation, Áurea ends up revealing his feelings during the tutoring that gives to the boy. This leads to disclosure of an unusual story of the past that will transform the present. (37.mostra.org)

the film is an experience of freedom, a code out of step, out of square, the remake (with cameras) wild and sensitive look Hélio Oiticica devoted to the cinema

A girl, a boy, the desert.

A curious couple, whose existence takes place where art arises along a singular metaphysical desire. They search for it through repeated and varied representations, in a setting of light where hope and desperation blend together. (imdb)

A delicate and tenacious writer, widowed three years ago, engages in frequent conversations with a parrot. However, she's always observed by a large portion of raw meat.

Adaptation of Haroldo de Campos poem: Galaxy.

In September 2007 Júlio Bressane goes to Ferrara. In the cemetery of the Italian city he ends up making two movies. (imdb)

After his film about the latter days of Nietzsche in Turin, plagued by insanity, Júlio Bressane returns with philosophy as subject for this travel essay. In the pure air of the Swiss Sils Maria, where he spent many summers, Nietzsche found rest for his swirling thoughts. (imdb)

"If you had to choose between me and your mother, who would it be?" Capitu asks provocatively of her problematic lover. Elsewhere, they dance to inaudible music, with their friends, each couple keeping to a rhythm of their own. At times, this depiction of the memories we see one Dom Casmurro commit to paper with a flamboyant pen seems to be an interplay of conflicting emotions - particularly when jealousy raises its head.

In this 7-hour-plus behemoth, Bressane re-edits his complete works, moving backwards and forwards between decades. The '60s, the '80s and the 2000s comment on each other in a way that sheds light on the director's themes and obsessions. (imdb)

Two women, long-time friends, embark on a love story. They are writers who do not write to publish but for themselves. Their mutual conversation, their desires, the risks and phantoms of existence, the privilege of the wounded and of condemnation, traverse their speech, are a confession. (imdb)