Bernardo Oliveira is an associate professor at the College of Education of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), a researcher, a music and film critic and producer. As a music critic and essayist, he has collaborated with various newspapers, blogs, magazines and festivals in Brazil and abroad. He has curated and produced numerous music festivals and concerts. He produced and curated Quintavant, an event dedicated to experimental music, and is the director of the QTV label (https://qtvlabel.bandcamp.com/). He co-produced Paula Maria Gaitán's films "Noite" and "Sutis Interferências", and Sérgio Mekler's "UN". He did the music research for Lucrécia Martel's "Zama". In December 2014, he published the book "Tom Zé - Estudando o Samba" (Editora Cobogó).
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TERRA E TRANSE: Performance Hierofãnica e Política em Vereda da Salvação
Before we explore the historical, dramatic, and cinematographic universe surrounding the film Vereda da Salvação (1965), we begin this essay with a narrative account and analysis of the event known in historiography as “A aparição do demônio no Catulé” (“The demon's apparition in Catulé”).
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In 1974, Sérgio Ricardo’s A Noite do Espantalho, shot entirely in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, was shown at the New York Film Festival. It was not until forty five years later, when Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s Bacurau came to the New York Film Festival in 2019, that Ricardo returned to New York City, this time through song.
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This past September, the staff of Limite had the opportunity to conduct an interview with the Workers of the Cinemateca Brasileira (Trabalhadores da Cinemateca Brasileira) , the collective representing the archivists and staff of Brazil’s largest film archive, who have been fighting for nearly an entire year for the survival of this vital institution.
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The following interview took place with archivist Hernani Heffner on July 4th, 2020. Heffner has been working at Rio de Janeiro’s historic Cinemateca do MAM since 1996 and is one of Brazil’s most important film archivists.
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