1982-07-30 ( 42 years old ) in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Gurcius Gewdner, born in 1982, screenwriter, editor and director, stood out early in the Brazilian underground with eschatological-dadaist anti-music performances with his group Os Legais, from the mid-90s onwards. Self-taught, but with an academic background in History, his interest in performance art and experimental music gave rise to the desire to make films, which were born parallel to his musical projects.
A multi-faceted filmography: influenced by Christoph Shilingensief, Vera Shitlova, John Waters and the Kuchar brothers, he has several short and medium-length fiction films, including Texas Carlos Massacre (2021), Lieder Die Soldaten Morgen (2019), Bom Dia Carlos (2015, awarded at the Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, shown at Fifigrot, Sydney Underground Film Festival, Housecore Horror Festival, among others), Erivaldo: o Astronauta Místico (2013), Freddy Breck Ballet (2010) and Nosferatum (2003, awarded at Cine Esquema Novo). And two feature films that are revered worldwide: Pazucus: Island of Vomit and Despair (2017, an eschatological monster adventure shown on open TV, on Fantaspoa, Film Panic Presents, New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival, Insólito Film Festival, among others) and Mamilos em Chamas (2008), which in 2024 was listed in the book "Cinema Degli Eccessi" by Andrea Guaia, as one of the 100 most shocking films in the history of cinema, alongside masterpieces of extreme cinema such as Saló, Pink Flamingos, Sweet Movie and Irreversible.
Since 1998, Gurcius, in partnership with Petter Baiestorf, has been one of the central figures of Canibal Filmes, the most influential SOV production company of extreme cinema in Brazil, with films such as Zombio 2: Chimarrão Zombies (2013, shown in Sitges, BUT Film Festival, Rojo Sangre, among others), Ninguém Deve Morrer (2009) and the sequel to the cult classic O Monstro Legume do Espaço (1995/2007), a partnership of more than 30 films, including feature-length, medium-length and short films. With performer and director Ligia Marina/Juma Pariri and Colombian activist Margarita Rodriguez Weweli-Lukana, he has been producing a series of experimental indigenous short films, 5 to date, including Hot Air (2023, shown at Echoes Indigenous Film Festival, Māoriland Film Festival, Red Nation International Film Festival, FICCI, Porn Film Festival Berlin, among others), Fôlego Vivo (2021) and Hasta El fin del Mundo (2018). In partnership with legendary photographer and filmmaker Ivan Cardoso, they created a collection of 24 films brought together in the feature film O Baccanal do Diabo (2013, shown in Rotterdam, Karlov Vary, among others) and the experimental O Colírio do Corman (2020). Together with editor Christian Caselli, he put together documentaries with intense archival research such as Ivan O TerriRvel (2019) and Serguei O Psicodélico (2016). He has acted in films such as Tongues of Fire (2024), Black Sea (2013), among others. In music, it is also worth mentioning prolific collaborations with L. Borgia Rosseti and Orquestra Zé Felipe. Parallel to all this, he has a filmography of documentaries about his own creative process, such as the feature film A Nau dos Foos (2021, with appearances by Roger Corman, Olaf Moller and Richard Stanley), Cavalo Marinho vem a Cavalo (2020), Banho Gostoso (2008) and O Triunvirato (2004).
Movies
Tropical SOV
2025-05-22
Capivaras na Noite
2024-11-12
Mr. Baiestorf's Beach Party
2024-07-10
Tongues of Fire
2024-06-28
A Cool Day with Os Legais
2024-03-02
Trash Double
2022-03-31
A Invasão dos Canibais Independentes: editando, produzindo e trabalhando com a Canibal Filmes
2022-02-21
Texas Carlos Massacre
2021-06-17
Sete Gatos Para Calígula
2021-04-20
Beck 137
2021-04-20
Seahorse comes on horseback
2021-02-28
Na cabeça de Baiestorf
2020-09-07
The Frightened President
2020-04-04
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
2020-01-27
Quem é Gurcius Gewdner?
2017-02-02
Pazucus: Island of Vomit and Despair
2017-01-23
A Revolta do Boêmio
2016-04-01
Nham-Nham, A Criatura
2015-05-18
Pressa de te amar
2013-11-30
Dark Sea
2013-10-16
Sangue Marginal
2013-09-01
Zombio 2
2013-05-04
Let Your Fans Be Your Distributor!
2013-01-11
Perdigotos da Discórdia
2012-01-01
Monstrolândia
2012-01-01
Ivan
2011-04-16
Páscoa Sarnenta
2011-01-01
Ten Years Without GG Allin
2010-08-29
Gurcius Gewdner Show
2010-07-30
Nobody Must Die
2009-02-11
Flaming Nipples
2008-03-31
The Whore with the Chainsaw
2008-02-13
The Noble Bloodsucker Politician
2007-05-18
3 Cortes
2006-12-14
Dead Human Collection
2005-09-02
New Year's Day
2005-01-03
The Population of Colonial Spanish America
2004-12-04
O Triunvirato
2004-09-20
Nosferatum
2003-10-13
Atomic Beer
2003-03-03
Poluição dos Mares & Oceanos
1996-08-26
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