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Marcos Bonisson

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Biography

Marcos Bonisson is an artist with a Master degree in Science of Art (UFF) and PhD candidate in Contemporary Studies of the Arts (UFF). He lives and works in the city of Rio de Janeiro. He also holds a degree in Literature (UNESA) and a post-graduate degree in Art and Culture (UCAM). He studied engraving, drawing, cinema and photography at EAV Parque Lage (1977-1981). Participated in the 27th International Biennial of São Paulo in 2006. Published the book Arpoador (Editora Nau, 2011) and the catalog Pulsar (Binocular Publishing House, MAM, 2013). His most recent solo exhibitions were at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro in 2013 and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP-Paris) in 2015.

Known For

Cazuza: Good News
7.5

It explores the last two years of Brazilian singer Cazuza's life, from his AIDS diagnosis until his death. Nilo Romero, Cazuza's music producer and the film's director, created a collection of rarely seen and controversial images.

Cazuza: Good News

2025
Razor in the Flesh
4.6

The story of three characters in a brothel room: the prostitute Neusa Sueli, the gigolo Vado and the homosexual Veludo speak of their lives and expose their marginality.

Razor in the Flesh

1997
The Sign of Chaos
7.2

A customs agent, Dr. Amnésio, examines some reels of film, a documentary Orson Welles made about Brazil, and tries to confiscate the material. Then, a party in which repression agents celebrate their victory against freedom and creativity.

The Sign of Chaos

2003
Kopacabana
N/A

Film set in the neighborhood of Copacabana, elaborated through a collage of current and archive images (Super 8 and digital). An experimental work narrated by the significant speech of the poet Fausto Fawcett, and sonorized by the musician Arnaldo Brandão.

Kopacabana

2019
Perigo Negro
7.0

Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Oswaldianas" which deals with a uprising soccer player who has his career spoiled by a unscrupulous gambler

Perigo Negro

1992
69
N/A

"69" is an experimental film made from an extensive Super 8 archive filmed by Edmond Conilh de Beyssac, a French aviator. In context, everything was filmed in March of 1969, on a trip to Brazil. The film was transmuted into the idea of Anarchive, a concept created by the philosopher Erin Manning, activated in a process of audiovisual experimentation.

69

2021
Reinvenção da Rua
N/A

Helena Ignez's first film as a director is a homage to American architect and contemporary artist Vito Acconti, who made an urban intervention over a bridge in São Paulo, transforming that space for it to be used as shelter by nearby homeless people.

Reinvenção da Rua

2003
Tupianas
N/A

Super 8 filmed in Brazil during the 70's. It's a reflection about the idea of Tupi, by elaborating a non-linear narrative with a collage of "antropofagic images", presenting the body and space as topology of desires, experimenting the choice in life, and language of the essential, instead of the accessory.

Tupianas

2016