Pranks in super-8:

Torquato Neto’s cinema in freedom

Authors

  • Edwar de Alencar Castelo Branco UFPI

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36661/2238-9717.2010n18.8067

Keywords:

Experimental Art, Torquato Neto

Abstract

This work analyzes the cinematographic activity of Torquato Neto, a Tropicália icon. Two 1972 films have been analyzed – O terror da Vermelha and Adão e Eva do Paraíso ao Consumo. This study allows the conclusion that the “cinema in freedom” pursued by Torquato Neto represents the highest point in the torquatean struggle to “destroy language and blow it up”, which was an expedient to avoid the social capture of his subjectivity. In addition to that, a great convergence was found between Torquato Neto’s “free cinema” and Hélio Oiticica’s “anti-art”.

Keywords: Tropicália, Experimental Art, Torquato Neto.

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Author Biography

  • Edwar de Alencar Castelo Branco, UFPI

    Doutor em História, bolsista de produtividade em pesquisa do CNPq, professor e atual vicereitor da UFPI.

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Published

05-06-2018

Issue

No. 18 (2010): Dossiê História e Cinema

Section

Dossiês

How to Cite

BRANCO, Edwar de Alencar Castelo. Pranks in super-8:: Torquato Neto’s cinema in freedom. Fronteiras: Revista Catarinense de História, Brasil, n. 18, p. 11–25, 2018. DOI: 10.36661/2238-9717.2010n18.8067. Disponível em: https://periodicos.uffs.edu.br/index.php/FRCH/article/view/8067. Acesso em: 6 dec. 2025.