Saturday 9 June – Sunday 23 September 2007

Having abandoned traditional painting and sculpture during the mid 1960s in favour of more participatory art forms, in 1968 Hélio Oiticica appeared in the groundbreaking movie Câncer by Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha. Rocha was an iconic leader and theorist of Cinema Novo who shared Oiticica’s desire for cultural independence and the dismantling of social hierarchies. Greatly admired by Luis Buñuel, Rocha’s fiercely avant-garde films stylishly depict Brazil's political corruption and social upheaval with brutal candour. In conjunction with Tate’s Hélio Oiticica retrospective, this rare survey of Rocha’s films includes Câncer plus seven other landmark titles. Rocha’s films are essential and powerful viewing in this bicentenary of Parliament’s abolition of the slave trade.

 

• Glauber Rocha: Câncer   Saturday 2 June 2007
• Glauber Rocha: Black God, White Devil (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol)   Saturday 9 June 2007
• Glauber Rocha: Earth Entranced (Terra em Transe)   Saturday 16 June 2007
• Glauber Rocha: Antonio das Mortes aka O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro   Saturday 23 June 2007
• Glauber Rocha: Severed Heads (Cabeças Cortadas)   Saturday 30 June 2007
• Glauber Rocha: The Lion Has Seven Heads (O Leão de Sete Cabeças)   Saturday 7 July 2007
• Glauber Rocha: The Age of Earth (A Idade da Terra)   Saturday 21 July 2007
• Glauber Rocha: Câncer and At Midnight with Glauber   Sunday 23 September 2007