Country: Brazil
Year: 2005
Duration: 14'


Never-before-seen and visionary (in sound and image) fragments by the Brazilian plastic artist Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980). Heliorama is neither a traditional documentary nor is it a film made of leftovers. Rather, it is a stimulating challenge to find new correlations in old material, to see how Oiticica infused a mysterious surplus of life into his fantastic works, dressing his malleable parangolés in amazing performances.

"I never throw away the discarded scraps of my films, I was Ed Wood-ian before I ever saw the film by Tim Burton, I'm just not so organized. Unfortunately, I lost the negatives of the film on Hélio, even if I had filmed for over an hour I ended up editing only 13 minutes." (I. Cardoso)

Biography

film director

Ivan Cardoso

Ivan Cardoso (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1952), photographer and artist, decided to dedicate himself to cinema after seeing O Bandido da Luz Vermelha (1968) by Rogério Sganzerla. During the early 1970s he put his photographic activity at the service of the Tropicalism movement, creating the covers for albums by Gal Costa and Caetano Veloso and illustrating books by Waly Salomão, Torquato Neto o Augusto and Haroldo de Campos. After directing many short films in Super8, in 1982 he made his first full-length fiction film, O Segredo da Múmia, with which he created a new genre, "terrir," a mixture of comedy and horror.

FILMOGRAFIA

Alô Alô Cinédia (cm, 1973), Moreira da Silva (cm, 1973), Museu Goeldi (cm, 1974), Teasarama (cm, 1975), Ruínas de Murucutu (cm, 1976), O Universo de Mojica Marins (cm, 1978), Dr. Dyonélio (cm, 1978), Ho (cm, 1979), Domingo de Ramos (cm, 1981), O Segredo da Múmia (1982), Os Bons Tempos Voltaram: Vamos Gozar Outra Vez (1983), A História de um Olho (1986), As Sete Vampiras (1986), O Escorpião Escarlate (1991), Sexo, Drogas e Rock'n'Roll (cm, 1999), Um Lobisomem na Amazônia (2005), Heliorama (cm, 2005), Marca do Terrir (2005).

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