Luís Rocha Melo is an independent director, researcher and assistant professor of Cinema at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). He directed the feature films Um Homem e Seu Pecado (2016) and Nenhum Fórmula Para a Contemporânea Visão do Mundo (2012); the 35 mm fiction short film Que cavação é essa? (2008); the documentaries Legião Estrangeira (2011), O Galante Rei da Boca (2004), Fernando Py (1994), A Projeção no Cinema (1993), O Desejo de Deus (1992) and Alex Viany - Um Documententário em Vídeo (1990); the essays 5 X Sérgio (2020), Cinebiogravura (2017), O Trapezista (1999) and Fragmentos - Uma Narrativa Intranquila (1997). He is currently finishing the feature documentary O Cangaceiro da Moviola, about the veteran editor Severino Dadá. He coordinates the Audiovisual Historiography Research Group (www.historiografiaaudiovisual.com.br), linked to UFJF. He is one of the authors of the book in two volumes Nova História do Cinema Brasileiro, organized by Sheila Schvarzman and Fernão Ramos (São Paulo: SESC, 2018).
5 X Sérgio
In 1958, Sérgio Ricardo released his first long-play, Dançante nº1. Although he would only venture into filmmaking four years later, cinema was already present in his debut record.
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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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