Films byTexts by Glauber Rocha
FILM
Black God, White Devil
Glauber Rocha, 1964, 120’

After killing his employer when said employer tries to cheat him out of his payment, a man becomes an outlaw and starts following a self-proclaimed saint.

 

“Here’s my rifle to save the poor from starving”

Corisco

 

FILM
Antonio das Mortes
Glauber Rocha, 1969, 100’

“Be aware: for him there are no true or false gods, there are (as Deleuze and Guattari would say) ‘rhizome’ gods, there are images sliding ones beneath the others, all of them true or all of them false. What matters is not the Earth but the Age.