Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Joaquim PEDRO DE ANDRADE (1932-1988, Brazil) studied Physics in Rio de Janeiro. He attended the school's filmclub and it was here where he started experimenting with filmmaking. He started working as an assistant director, and made his first own film, The Poet of the Castle, in 1959. Each of his films were made within the borders of Brazil and tackles a distinctly Brazilian subject, from Carnival to the modernist motif of cannibalism.
Filmography
(selection) O poeta do castelo/The Poet of the Castle (1959, short doc), O mestre de Apipucos (1959, short doc), Couro de gato (1962, short doc), Garrincha - Alegria do povo/Garrincha: Hero of the Jungle (1963, short doc), O padre e a moça/The Priest and the Girl (1966), Improvisiert und zielbewusst ((1967, short TV doc), Macunaíma (1969), Os inconfidentes (1972), Guerra Conjugal/ Conjugal Warfare (1976), Veredo tropical/Tropical Path (1978, short), O aleijadinho (1978, short doc), O homem do Pau-Brasil (1982)
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade at IFFR
Vereda tropical
18'
Brazil
IFFR 2012