Saturday 7 July 2007, 19.00

Shifting his focus from Brazil to Africa, Rocha described this film as ‘a theory about the possibility of a political cinema’. The Lion has Seven Heads is an attack on neo-colonialism in Africa, and features puppet dictators, a Latin-American guerrilla, a singing ex-Nazi, a mysterious blonde, a sadistic missionary and a Portuguese mercenary.

Glauber Rocha, Congo/France/Italy 1971, 103 min

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Colour exhibition