Researcher, curator, writer, photographer, filmmaker. Adjunct Professor in the Department of Communication and the Audiovisual Course at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Rodrigo Almeida is one of the founders of the webpage Saquinho de Lixo and the independent queer collective Surto & Deslumbramento. He was the curator of the Recife International Film Window (2009 - 2017), the show Brasil Distópico (2017) and several other initiatives in the field of cinema and visual arts. Rodrigo is the director of the award-winning short films "Casa Forte" (2013), "Como era gostoso meu cafuçu" (2015) and "O nascimento de Helena" (2021), screened in several national and international festivals. He is the author of the book "O Cinema e seu testamento" (2016), the e-books "Rasgos Culturais: Consumo Cinéfilo e o Prazer da Raridade" (2011) and "O amargo obituário do cinema pernambucano" (2019) and organizer of the collection of articles "Cinema e Memória" (2013). He currently coordinates the extension project Mostra Monstra.
Ciclo
Ciclo revela a jornada cinéfila do cineasta e acadêmico Rodrigo Almeida ao descobrir (e se apaixonar por) o cinema produzido no estado em que nasceu, Pernambuco.
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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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