
Another masterpiece by Glauber Rocha for you: enjoy!!!
and thanks a lot Hufts for his post in KG
http://karagarga.net/details.php?id=27840
"It is a film against the dictatorships, it is the funeral of the dictatorships. I deal with a character who might be the apocalyptic encounter of Perón and Franco in the ruins of the Latin-American civilization. I filmed it at the rocks of Cadaqués, where Buñuel filmed L'Age d'Or. Spain is Europe's Bahia. Cabezas Cortadas dismounts all the dramatic schemes of the theatre and the cinema. The future of the cinema will be sound, light, delirium, that line interrupted since L'Age d'Or. " Glauber Rocha
"(. . .) Glauber Rocha talks about the history of Latin-America, about Perón, about the Iberians, Moors and Christians, showing Spain as a ruin, as a crazy man who at the moment of dying reestablishes monarchy. He talks about Perón, Franco, Batista, about these dictators who go to Spain in exile, but builds up a dream, materializing the unconscious into sounds and images. And when the unconscious, the dream, irrupts into reality, it is like a machine strange to reality. To Glauber, as André Breton said, "the metaphor has the ability to sculpture the real space, in the chaos of reason". A Greek head, the head of a civilization, the Greco-Roman-Christian one, appears in te mud, cut off.
Glauber builds up a hyperbole. An image forming an audiovisual figure of speech appears on the top of the words of the title Cabezas Cortadas. The head has been severed from a Greek statue. It is inside the head that everything is created, the science, the reasoning. To severe the heads. To severe the ties to reason, to the rational knowledge, to positivism, in order to understand. A cut on the rationalist thought. Passion-reason opposition. "
In Castellano with Portuguese subtitles