Gurcius Gewdner
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).
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Tropical SOV as Voz do Rei Cocô - Segmento Viagem à Flora
- 2024 · Capivaras na Noite as Ele mesmo
- 2024 · Mr. Baiestorf's Beach Party as Gurcius
- 2024 · Tongues of Fire as Sofia
- 2024 · A Cool Day with Os Legais as Self
- 2022 · Dublê de Lixo as Voyer
- 2022 · A Invasão dos Canibais Independentes: editando, produzindo e trabalhando com a Canibal Filmes as Host
- 2021 · Texas Carlos Massacre as Adventure Director
- 2021 · Beck 137 as
- 2021 · Sete Gatos Para Calígula as Calígula
- 2021 · A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus as Self
- 2021 · Seahorse comes on horseback as Self
- 2020 · Na cabeça de Baiestorf as Mamilos da Pam Grier
- 2020 · The Frightened President as Mystic
- 2020 · Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy as Roger Corman's Voice (voice)
- 2017 · Quem é Gurcius Gewdner? as
- 2017 · Pazucus: Island of Vomit and Despair as Omar
- 2016 · A Revolta do Boêmio as Spencer trapalhão
- 2015 · Nham-Nham, A Criatura as Nham Nham Voice
- 2013 · Pressa de te amar as The Running Man
- 2013 · Dark Sea as Bar Man
- 2013 · Sangue Marginal as
- 2013 · Zombio 2 as Pastor Davi
- 2013 · Let Your Fans Be Your Distributor! as Self
- 2012 · Trash! A Série as Self
- 2012 · Monstrolândia as Russian on the beach
- 2012 · Perdigotos da Discórdia as
- 2011 · The Life and Death of Reincarnation by Gurcius Gewdner as Self
- 2011 · Ivan as Monteiro Lobato on Jesus
- 2011 · Páscoa Sarnenta as
- 2010 · Ten Years Without GG Allin as Deliquent with glasses
- 2010 · Gurcius Gewdner Show as The Boss
- 2009 · Nobody Must Die as
- 2008 · Banho Gostoso: A Produção de Mamilos em Chamas as Narrador
- 2008 · Flaming Nipples as
- 2008 · The Whore with the Chainsaw as Demented Editor
- 2007 · Manifesto Canibal - How to Make Movies in Times of Crisis and Chaos as Self
- 2007 · The Noble Bloodsucker Politician as Rich Filmaker
- 2007 · Arrombada - I'll Piss On Your Fucking Grave!!! as
- 2006 · 3 Cortes as
- 2005 · Dead Human Collection as Dead Gurcius
- 2005 · New Year's Day as Offender suporter
- 2004 · The Population of Colonial Spanish America as Roberto Maia
- 2004 · O Triunvirato as Director
- 2003 · Nosferatum as Psychiatrist
- 2003 · Atomic Beer as
- 1996 · Poluição dos Mares & Oceanos as Monstro da Poluição