Matheus da Rocha Pereira

Camera operator

March 13, 1979 (47 years)

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Biography

Brazilian cinematographer.

Filmography

6.2

New Dubai

In a middle-class neighbourhood in a city in the countryside of Brazil, the real estate speculation is a menace to the affective memory of a group of friends. Their answer to this imminent transformation is to fuck in the construction sites. And what about love? Is love just a construction?

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Cazuza Além da Música

This documentary reveals the man behind the icon Cazuza: the poet who transformed his life into art and his death into resistance. It delves into the intense journey of the young man who sang of love, Brazil, and his freedom until his last verse.

4.2

Intruders

In the midst of political upheaval in Brazil, Travis Mathews directs this startling and moving film of the intersection between class, privilege and sex. A man lives a lonely, exquisite lifestyle in his large, empty apartment. He hears a noise, of a man stumbling through the window in his bedroom. The man has a gun, and he shakes while he holds it. What follows is a tender, complex exploration of lust and desire between two very talented performers and the faultless Direction of Mathews.

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Xetá

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5.4

Elon Doesn't Believe in Death

As he does every single day, Elon goes to meet his wife at her workplace, but she is not there. He doesn’t find her at home as well, so he starts to retrace the path Madalena makes daily. In the morning after, Elon goes to the police station and files a report, runs into hospitals, morgues. Alone, he wanders through a metropolis, searching for news about the sudden and mysterious disappearance of his wife.

7.1

The Invisible Collection

The young Beto ventures to the Brazilian countryside in search of a collection of rare drawings. There he meets Samir, the collector, and his family ruined by the demise of the cocoa plantations. The journey and the encounter will irrevocably change the young man’s soul.

6.1

Just Past Noon on a Tuesday

Two strangers visit the penthouse of a recently deceased lover, only to find themselves learning more about each other.

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The Last Rock Band

Documentary about the trajectory of the Brazilian rock band Cachorro Grande, created in Porto Alegre, State of Rio Grande do Sul, in 1999 and imploded in São Paulo, the exact year they would have celebrated their 20th anniversary. As is the script of every self-respecting rock band, Cachorro Grande lived and survived amid contrasts and extremes. From being the greatest promise of Brazilian rock’n roll at the beginning of this century, opening shows for the Rolling Stones in Brazil, to going through open fights that shaped the band’s style and created fissures, culminating in the threat of its disbandment.

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Booyah!

Amadeu needs money, he and Gina are in trouble.Fate smiles on him when he finds a bag stuffed with a small fortune, which he ends up hiding. Now Gina has to find out where Amadeu kept the bag. But she's not the only one on the hunt for this fortune.

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A Finada Mãe da Madame

Lúcio comes back home drunk and tired after a party late into the night and has a fight with his wife, Terezinha. Then, a butler shows up at their door to inform them Terezinha's mother has died.

6.1

A Stem

Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm.

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Os Ossos da Saudade

A film about absence, narrated from the experiences of people who experience feelings of absence and distance, spread across Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde. The body, landscape, memory and time. Stories and places built with remembrance, oblivion and invention. A journey through the territories of memory, representation and belonging.

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Corpos Celestes

An astronomer is forced to leave the city where he lives in order to save his relationship. He ends up returning to the place he never intended to come back: The small town where he was born, stage of a great childhood trauma. Once there, he will discover the truth that will change his life forever.

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Joy Is the Acid Test

A film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda Ícone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker, as she defines herself, and Lírio Terron, a human rights activist. In fact, a journey that is not over in their lives. Jarda Icon teaches classes on how women can obtain their own orgasm. With her group of disciples and friends Ana Brasil, Sheyla Fernanda, Caroline Sylvie and Lakshmi she develops self-sustainable feminist and artistic projects. The film is political, but not at all politicized in the traditional sense. It is an ode to the underground and counterculture movements, it is a hymn to freedom, and its title is also a tribute to Oswald d Andrade, one of the main names in Brazilian modernism.

6.4

Hard Labor

After her husband loses his job, Helena opens her own grocery store. Soon, increasingly strange events begin to plague her store, making her question her sanity.

5.0

Castaways

Odete tries to guess where her husband would be hidden. But there is no possible hiding place.

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The Part of the World That Belongs to Me

Documentary about dreams and desires of ordinary people, about fuels that move us daily: happiness, recognition, financial stability, marriage, health, fun, a few pounds less, enjoyment, overcoming or even a simple and humble kite.

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Ridículos

Four of the best clowns of Salvador return to the place where they were initiated 15 years before to conduct an initiation process of a new clown. In addition to the memories of this experience and its consequences in Salvador's clown scene, the creative process of these artists is revealed in a metalinguistic environment, a tribute to the act of creating.

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Terno

One day away of Marcelo's wedding, the tailor, the groom and his father will have to correct much more than the suit's measures.

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Screens

Recent studies suggest that the average adult will spend at least half of their life in front of a screen. This documentary explores how Brazilian digital influencers are using that reality to fuel activism on social issues such as racial representation, LGBTQ+ rights, feminism, and politics. Stuck at home with social media as their only tool to make their voices heard, nine influencers create content across multiple platforms, raising awareness about taboo subjects in an accessible and deconstructed way while sharing their daily lives. Through the communities they build online, they question whether our screens have become true mirrors of the souls of today’s societies.