PhD in Communication and Culture - UFRJ with a sandwich doctorate at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III. Research coordinator of the Niterói project in images - digital repository of photographs and films (LUPA-UFF)
Tortura e Extermínio: A violência de estado nos filmes de gênero dos anos da Ditadura militar no Brasil
Corpos negros jogados em valas, trocas de tiros com a polícia nas ruas da cidade, perseguição, torturas, execuções sumárias.
/ INTERVIEWS A/V/ ARTICLESIn 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.
/ INTERVIEWSThis 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.
/ INTERVIEWSThe 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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