Júlio Bressane
Still: EducaçãoFilmmaker Júlio BRESSANE (1946, Brazil) started his film career as an assistant director to Walter Lima Jr. and directed his first feature film, Cara a Cara, in 1967, rising as an important figure in Brazil’s Cinema Marginal. He founded the production company Belair Movies in 1970, together with Rogério Sganzerla, before moving to London in exile. Bressane’s poetic and essayistic work is among the most exemplary of Brazilian experimental film, concentrating especially on the relationship between picture and soundtrack. He received the Bastone Bianco Award for Dias de Nietzsche em Turin (2001) at the Venice Film Festival. In 2008, he received the honorary Eduardo Abelin Trophy at Gramado Film Festival. Educação Sentimental (2013) premiered at Locarno Film Festival and was nominated for a Golden Leopard. The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus, an extensive retrospective of his six decades of filmmaking, had its world premiere at IFFR 2023.
Filmography
Lima Barreto: trajetória (1966, short), Bethânia bem de Perto (1966, short), Cara a cara/Face to Face (1967), O Anjo Nasceu/An Angel Is Born (1969), Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema/Killed the Family and Went to the Movies (1969), A Miss e o Dinossauro/The Miss and the Dinosaur (1970), Família do Barulho (1970), Barao Olavo, o Horrivel/Baron Olavo, the Horrible (1970), Cuidado, Madame!/Madame, Beware (1970), A Fada do Oriente (1970), Amor Louco/Crazy Love (1971), Memórias de um Estrangulador de Loiras (1971), Lágrima Pantera (1972), O Rei do Baralho/The King of Cards (1973), O monstro Caraíba − Nova História Antiga do Brasil (1975), Perdidas de Amor (1977), A agonia/Agony (1978), Viola Chinesa: Meu Encontro com o Cinema Brasileiro (1979, short), O gigante da América/The Giant of America (1979), Cinema Inocente (1981), Tabu (1982), Brás Cubas (1985), Sermões: A História de Antônio Vieira (1989), Galaxia Albina (1991), Quem Seria o Feliz Conviva de Isadora Duncan? (1992), O Cinema do Cinema (1992), Oswaldianas (1992, segment: Quem seria o feliz conviva de Isadora Duncan?) Infernalario: Logodedalo (1992), Antonioni Hitchcock: A Imagem em Fuga (1993), O mandarim/The Mandarin (1995), Miramar (1997), Sao Jerônimo/Saint Jerome (1999), Dias de Nietzsche em Turin/Nietzsche’s Days in Turin (2001), Filme de Amor/A Love Movie (2003), Cléopatra (2007), Ver viver reviver (2007, short doc), A Erva do Rato/The Rat Herb (2008), Rua Aperana 52/Aperana Street 52 (2012), O Batuque dos Astros (2012, doc), Educação Sentimental/Sentimental Education (2013), Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013, segment: untitled), Kid (2015), Beduino (2016), Sedução da Carne/Seduction of the Flesh (2018), Nietzsche Sils Maria Rochedo de Surlej (2019, co-dir), Capitu e o Capítulo/Capitu and the Chapter (2021), A Longa Viagem do Ônibus Amarelo/ The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus (2023, co-dir)
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Júlio Bressane at IFFR
O Mandarim
90'
Brazil
IFFR 1996
O anjo nasceu
72'
Brazil
IFFR 2000
O Mandarim
90'
Brazil
IFFR 2000
Matou a família e foi ao cinema
60'
Brazil
IFFR 2000
Miramar
88'
Brazil
IFFR 2000
Sao Jerônimo
78'
Brazil
IFFR 2000
Tabu
95'
Brazil
IFFR 2000
Dias de Nietzsche em Turin
88'
Brazil
IFFR 2002
Filme de amor
90'
Brazil
IFFR 2004
Cléopatra
116'
Brazil
IFFR 2008
The Rat Herb
80'
Brazil
IFFR 2009
Belair
80'
Brazil
IFFR 2010
Rua Aperana 52
80'
Brazil
IFFR 2012
Educação sentimental
84'
Brazil
IFFR 2014
Beduino
76'
Brazil
IFFR 2017
Nietzsche Sils Maria Rochedo de Surlej
In the pure air of the Swiss Sils Maria, where Nietzsche spent many summers, he found rest for his swirling thoughts. Shot in the style of a travelogue.
58'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
Capitu and the Chapter
Brazilian classic novel filmed as an ironic/philosophical essay on poetry and jealousy. Surprising and experimental.
75'
Brazil
IFFR 2021
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
Júlio Bressane looks back at his career in this very long stream-of-consciousness edit containing scenes from all his films!
432'
Brazil
IFFR 2023