October 1, 2020
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 Presented as part of Music+Film: Brazil

Co-presented by Cinema Tropical, Brasil Summerfest, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU.

A special conversation with Brazilian director Lula Buarque de Hollanda on his most recent film, the documentary feature Gilberto Gil Anthology Vol. 1 that participated in the 2020 edition of our popular series Music+Film: Brazil. Buarque de Hollanda was in conversation with scholar Dylon L. Robbins on the making of the documentary tribute that plays tribute to one of Brazil’s most iconic musicians and that is the first of a three-part series that will lead up to the legendary musician’s 80th birthday in 2022. The film sheds light on the background of Gil’s songs through conversations with the musician himself in which he discusses his worldview and expanding creative power at the beginning of his career during this turbulent Brazilian historical moment.

Lula Buarque de Hollanda (Rio de Janeiro, 1963) is a filmmaker and producer. After completing a BA in Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and an MA in Cinema from New York University, he founded the film production company Conspiração in 1991 with Claudio Torres, José Henrique Fonseca and Arthur Fontes, which became one of the most important production companies in Brazil, working in a wide range of areas that include cinema, advertisement, television, branding and music videos. He currently is a co-director, with Leticia Monte, of the production company Espiral. He has directed the documentaries Pierre Fatumbi Verger - Messenger between Dois Mundos (1998), Mystery of Samba (with Carolina Jabor, 2008)—both awarded as Best Documentary of the Year by Academia Brazilian Film—and the fiction films A Taça do Mundo é Nossa (2003), The Salesman of Past (2015) and an episode of HBO’s Mandrake serie. .In 2018, he released the documentary O Muro, shown at Festival do Rio and Mostra São Paulo and developed the feature film Leite Derramado, based on the novel by Chico Buarque.

Dylon L. Robbins has published and carried out research on Brazilian and Cuban cinema and music, the documentary and materiality, Walt Disney and Sergei Eisenstein, polyrhythm and temporality, spirit possession and political subjectivity, torture, pornography, cannibalism, and anthropophagy, as well as on visual culture and war in the United States in 1898, with publications appearing in Brasiliana, Discourse, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and the Revista Iberoamericana.  He is currently an Associate Professor at New York University’s College of Arts and Science,and has held visiting professorships at the Université François Rabelais in Tours, France, and in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.