Carlos Adriano Movies

The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made...

Burnings of a family home (by farmer security guards; September 2021) and a prayer house (by members of a Pentecostal church; December 2021),...

Experimental Short, Brazil

Experimental short

"Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas" (2026) is a Brazilian film essay directed by Carlos Adriano. The film, which explores the impossibility of...

Experimental found footage film

On September 6, 2021, private security guards burned down a Guarani Kaiowá house at the Ava'te Tekoha ("place for living the culture") in the...

An avant-garde film crafted from archival footage of Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato.

Cinepoem about the current Palestinian tragedy, with Brazilian films from 1922 and 1932 (the indigenous catastrophe), documentaries from 2023/2024,...

Experimental documentary about the life and work of obscure samba musician Vassourinha (1923-1942), born in São Paulo, who only recorded six...

Film poem based on the theses “On the concept of history” (1940) by Walter Benjamin. Brazilian indigenous peoples in records from 1917...

Coleridge's flower in the garden of the paths that fork from Borges. Paper and film flowers; fossil flowers. "Panorama of all the flowers of speech"...

The sea taken by footages from XIX century (produced in 1891, 1895 ,1897 and 1900, in Brazil, United States, France and England) and listened from a...

It rains; but still, it sings. Under the symbolic motto of the meteorological metaphor, a poetic constellation of edited "found footage" with...