Topázio Filmes

A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious, vampiresque deaths happening at a nightclub show.

This film is Ivan Cardoso's new incursion on pop and experimental cinema, making an hommage to old screenings at Cine AC, and reuniting restaured films and new works.

A totally Cardoso-appropriated footage delirium, done as a tribute to US independent cinema's original rebel. In the end, Corman himself blesses Cardoso by saying: "You blended horror, sex and humour very well. And particularly the editing is very good because the film never lagged or slowed down". Which film? This one!

A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings to his suicide at the age of 28.

A collage of newsreels, trailers, clips and other visionary and unseen fragments of sight and sound regarding the late plastic artist Helio Oititica.

A late-1960s interview with Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, mixed in avant-garde style with scenes from his films and clips from fellow filmmaker José Mojica Marins and visual artist Hélio Oiticica.

A beautiful film-interview by Ivan Cardoso, made during the shooting of A Werewolf in Amazonia in 2005, with the astonishing Paul Naschy!

A film portrait of Jose Mojica Marins.

An experimental film made from a series of pictures of Raul Seixas shot by Ivan Cardoso, showing the musician in various stages of his life.

Anjo, a millionaire playboy who moonlights as a crime fighter, leaps into action when his arch-nemesis, the Scarlet Scorpion, kidnaps a beautiful fashion designer.

Filmmaker Ivan Cardoso gathers with Brazilian Soul Music legend Tim Maia for a sincere, informal conversation. In a true ABC of emotions, the singer discusses his impressions on love, sex, drugs, passion and jealously.

A deep dive into the history of São Paulo's avant-garde poetry movement, starting from fragments of the works of poet Augusto de Campos. A collage of rare scenes shows a long trail of comradery between avant-garde poetry and experimental cinema.

Shot in 1971 during Gal Costa's famous concert "Gal Fa-tal" in Rio de Janeiro's Sucata Nightclub, Ivan Cardoso's eponymous Super-8 short film shows the singer both in and off stage, interlapsed with scenes from Cardoso's "Nosferato no Brasil".