Hansen Bahia: A Documentary Portrait
A documentary portrait of Hansen Bahia, tracing the woodcut artist's dialogue with Bahia through printmaking, popular culture, and the visual memory of Salvador.
Interviews, films, and moving-image documents from CASCA Archive on artists, graphic memory, and the visual culture of Northeast Brazil.
A documentary portrait of Hansen Bahia, tracing the woodcut artist's dialogue with Bahia through printmaking, popular culture, and the visual memory of Salvador.
A portrait of Raul Córdula, artist, curator, and critic, tracing more than five decades of work shaped by geometric painting, experimental art, and the visual culture of Northeast Brazil.
A documentary portrait of Ciro Fernandes, tracing the life of the Pernambuco woodcut master through memory, family archive, cordel tradition, and a visual language that turns the sertão into image and poetry.
A short film on Mestre Didi that frames his work through the meeting of art and religion, abstraction and figuration, and past and future.
An intimate documentary on Francisco Brennand, tracing the life and writings of the Pernambuco ceramist through the isolated world of his workshop and the personal mythology he built over six decades.
A documentary built around a 2007 interview with Ariano Suassuna, moving through the semi-arid Northeast, Brazilian culture, literary craft, teaching, childhood memory, and the artistic formation of one of Brazil’s defining writers.
An interview-based portrait of Reynaldo Fonseca, following the Pernambuco painter, muralist, printmaker, illustrator, and teacher across the artistic formation that linked Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Europe, and the modern visual culture of Brazil.
A documentary portrait of Mestre Noza, revisiting the wood sculptor and maker from Juazeiro do Norte through popular devotion, carving practice, and the visual memory of the Northeast.
A short documentary that enters the imagined kingdom of Gilvan Samico, returning to his house and studio in Olinda shortly after his death to trace the memory, energy, and symbolic world of one of Brazil’s great printmakers.
A short documentary on J. Borges, the internationally celebrated cordel master and woodcut artist whose work moves across popular literature, printmaking, and the visual imagination of Northeast Brazil.
A studio-focused portrait of João Câmara, returning to the painter’s working space to frame his visual language, atmosphere, and singular place within the modern and contemporary art of Northeast Brazil.