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Jürgen Böttcher zum 85. Geburtstag

Documentary Film
Germany
2016
14 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Producer
Andrea Wohlfeil, Peter Badel
Director
Carola Sultan Bauermeister, Johanna Ickert
Cinematographer
Michel Links
Editor
Carola Sultan Bauermeister
Script
Peter Badel
Sound
Chris Miera, Zsolt Magyari
International Programme 2016
Rogério Duarte, the Tropikaoslist José Walter Lima

A portrait of the Brazilian artist, musician and poet – and a wild trip through avant-garde and pop, underground and tropicalismo.

Rogério Duarte, the Tropikaoslist

Documentary Film
Brazil
2016
89 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
VPC Cinema Vídeo
Director
José Walter Lima
Music
Rogério Duarte
Cinematographer
Pedro Semanovschi
Editor
Bau Carvalho
Animation
Caó Cruz Alves
Script
José Walter Lima, Roberto Torres
Sound
Nicolas Hallet
Rogério Duarte (1939–2016) was a Brazilian graphic designer, typographer, musician and poet. He saw himself as a popular avant-garde artist, both the tribune of Brazilian underground in film, music and painting and a folk artist. As a contemporary and companion of Glauber Rocha, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso he helped found the Tropicalism movement in the 1960s, though he later turned heretic because he refused to forgive the movement’s commercial sell-out.

José Walter Lima’s film portrait is an admiring homage to a natural born independent who practiced his art out of a deep, almost cosmic-religious attitude to life and the world. At one point the director elicits this credo from his protagonist: “Art is not a profession. Art is an approach. It is a way for you to approach things.”

Ralph Eue