Movies: Arthur Omar
- 1979
Lerfá Mú (1979)
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Strange graffiti on the walls of Rio de Janeiro, with the meaningless words Lerfá Mú, become the talk of the town, and cause for concern for the authorities....
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- 1988
The Inspector (1988)
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Crime and crime-fighting in Rio de Janeiro. With the master of disguise, the great police inspector Jamil Warwar, playing himself in the film. Jamil became famous by solving the Caso Cláudia, denouncing the involvement of politics and famous personal...
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- 1973
O anno de 1798 (1973)
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- 1987
O Nervo de Prata (1987)
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- 1972
Congo (1972)
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An experimental ethnographic documentary that criticizes the colonizer view of anthropology....
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- 1974
Triste Trópico (1974)
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In this "fake documentary", a doctor returns to Brazil after his studies in Paris. Setting out to practice Medicine, he becomes an indigenous messiah and, in time, a cannibal....
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- 1978
Asdrúbal, O que há com seu peru? (1978)
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Asdrúbal is the zoo sweeper, the handyman. One day, when he was feeding the turkeys, he noticed that one of them was talking....
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- 1969
Fragmentos de um Discurso Amoroso (1969)
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- 1971
Sumidades Carnavalescas (1971)
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- 1984
O Som, ou Tratado de Harmonia (1984)
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film about the desire of listening. An intermingling of voices from childhood, dreams, history, sex and politics. A visual essay about the universe of sounds. What is sound? What is the sound experience? Sound placed and replaced as Energy. Nothing m...
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- 1977
Tesouro da Juventude (1977)
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A tribute to the filmmaker Alberto Cavalcanti and a celebration of the 50th anniversary of his film En Rade. Made in the style of the lyrical documentaries of the 1920s, this is a work on the movement of all things. The youth of the image and the tre...
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- 2012
Alquimia da Velocidade (2012)
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Our perception of reality through movement....
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- 1969
The Raoul Book (1969)
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Omar, one of the main figures of the Brazilian avant-garde whose film Triste Trópico (1974) is a delirious interpretation of Lévi-Strauss’ anthropological ideas, made this experimental film as an homage to his friend Raúl Ruiz. In this film, Omar exp...
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- 1981
Música Barroca Mineira (1981)
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Experimental documentary about the baroque school of music that flourished in Minas Gerais, hinterland of Brazil in the eighteenth century, formed mostly by mulatto musicians. Original baroque music and electronic music by Arthur Omar....
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- 1987
Resurrection (1987)
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A montage of photographs (from police archives and newspapers) of tortured and murdered victims from the slums of Rio de Janeiro. The strange positions of the slaughtered bodies give a critical meaning to two traditional religious hymns that sing pra...
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- 1969
Versão Sem Letreiros (1969)
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- 1998
Pânico Sutil (1998)
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Made for the signature clothes brand Estúdio M. Officer, a web of audiovisual relations is spun from elements of a performance by the visual artist Cabelo, featuring women wearing fake pregnant bellies and set to music by Naná Vasconcelos. The camera...
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- 2008
Folia no Morro (2008)
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An ethnographic documentary following the Folia de Reis party that is celebrated every year at Morro de Santa Marta on Rio de Janeiro....
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