Glauber Rocha: Of Hunger and Dreams

A lightning rod for controversy in his native Brazil and after his voluntary exile from it, Glauber de Andrade Rocha in his brief 42 years of life and in the 45 years since his death,was perhaps the key figure of the Cinema Novo, a potent critic and polemicist whose essay “The Aesthetics of Hunger” remains a central reference point in discussions of anti-imperialist Third World filmmaking to this day and, per the critic Serge Daney, “one of the great troublemakers of modern cinema” in his own filmmaking practice. Bringing together a selection of the short and feature works that Glauber produced in the course of a brief, brilliant, frenetic career, including his allegorical masterwork Entranced Earth and his folkloric epic Rio das Mortes, Of Hunger and Dreams salutes a fierce, intransigent talent dedicated to finding a new, authentic vernacular particular to Brazilian cinema.