
José Agripino de Paula
Directing
Biography
José Agripino de Paula was born on 13 July 1937 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for Hitler IIIº Mundo (1968), Maria Esther: Danças Na África (1978) and Candomblé no Togo (1972). He died on 4 July 2007 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Known For

Paranoia, guilt, misery, and technology in the developing country. A fragmented narrative, distorted frames, shouts, and noises. The Nazis take over São Paulo: prison and torture of revolutionaries, a samurai lost in chaos, locked lovers, a dictator and his bunch. Considered one of the most influential films of the marginal period.
Hitler in the Third World

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Candomblé in Togo

This film follows Maria Esther, Jose Agrippino's partner, as she falls into a trance; the film takes place in the day-to-day setting of a room looking out over the beach and over the roofs of a house in North Africa.
Maria Esther: Danças Na África

in the waters of Arembepe, a woman, sometimes pregnant, sometimes not, a child, and a man, together in an elliptical temporality, harmonize and integrate into the space of nature with an emphatic rhythm. A biographical record of a hippie thesis from one of the popes of tropicalismo.
Sky Over Water
A experimental film about the work of José Agripino de Paula, Brazilian vanguard writer and movie director.
II Movimento de Abertura da Sinfonia Panamérica

A sacrifice ritual in Dahomey [Benin].