Saturday 21 July 2007, 19.00

Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni claimed of The Age of Earth that ‘each scene is a lesson in how modern cinema should be made.’ After stints in Cuba, the United States and Europe, in 1980 Rocha returned to Brazil to make the film, which was his last. This monumental culmination of his career is an urgent ‘anti-symphony’ intended to reinvent Brazilian cinema. Originally, the 16 reels of the film were to be presented in a random order. The frenzied feast of allegories and symbols defied rational reality and sought to ‘resist the classification of colonial anthropology’.

Glauber Rocha, Brazil 1980, 140 min

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended
Glauber Rocha, Brazil 1980, 140 min

    

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