Glauber and baroque: cinema of resistance and counter-conquest

Abstract

Regarding Lezama Lima’s concept of a counter-conquest American baroque, the following article intends to identify its expression in the movie Deus e o diabo na terra do sol (a.k.a. Black god, white devil), from Glauber Rocha. Owing to dialectic relationships earned from Brazilian’s Portuguese colonization and its remnants, and to the relapse of cultural myths on different historical periods, this study will seek to understand how the film-maker inscribes a world-view, realizing a potential counter-conquest cinema. Lastly, shall be made an approach between Glauber and the Brazilian modernists, who, while revisiting the colonial baroque collection, have identified tension gestures in relation to European mimetic art model. Far from producing a historical and anachronistic interpretation, they have sought to make use of what they have seen for their own art project.