Rachadura Visual — queer audiovisual collective
The Basement
A neighbor, a letter and an old archive bearing the family surname. In first person, O Porão (The Basement) revisits the moment the director told his parents about…
View projectBetween Echoes and Bodies
A video exhibition of three Rachadura Visual works on LGBTQIAPN+ narratives from the countryside — in Criciúma, Joinville and online in 2026, with a free educational guide for…
View projectExpanded screen: live talk with Carla Abraão
Carla Abraão, educator at MoMA and the Guggenheim, talks contemporary art, cinema, video art and video installation in a free Rachadura live.
View projectWhat Belongs to César
Fiction short about César, a sixty-year-old farmer who decides to retire and live his identity — and faces his coworkers’ prejudice and a crisis in his marriage.
View projectAuteur cinema outside the capital: challenges and opportunities
Free online talk with Rudolfo Auffinger on making low-budget auteur films outside Brazil’s big cities. Funded by the Paulo Gustavo Law.
View projectBorn With It
A looping video installation on LGBTQIAPN+ childhoods in Brazil's rural South: childhood memories crossed with an ultra-future imaginary, in an encounter between generations 40 years apart.
View projectHands-on Cultural Project Workshop
Six free sessions at Casa da Cultura Rogério Sganzerla in Joaçaba (Santa Catarina, Brazil) to get ideas off the page: from a SWOT analysis to a pitch in…
View projectOutcasts’ Basketball
In sequence shots between documentary and dance, an LGBTQIA+ group takes over a public court to play basketball in drag and dance vogue — sport as resistance.
View projectinheritances
A poetry book published by Urutau.
View projectDaring, Bold and Powerful
A Farofa Tropikal music video shot on a boat trip from Belém to Alter do Chão — lambada, northern heat and women's bodies front and center.
View projectselfish
A collage music video for Dayá, directed by Keythe Tavares: a being drifts across many skies while the same love stories repeat through time. "What makes a love…
View projectSpear Drag
A visual album by Pitombas do Amor: Januário's journey from a sugarcane cutter in the Pernambuco backlands to a drag host of a children's show in an afrofuturist…
View projectLive in the Kitchen
Live acoustic sessions recorded in a single location — the kitchen. Each edition, two artists or bands play live in a homemade, affectionate recording. This edition: Bernardo Esposito…
View projectfrom the skin’s chest
Based on Francisco Mallmann's poem, bodies under the gaze of a Christian cross. An experimental short awarded at 20+ festivals, from Berlin to Toronto.
View projectYou Scorn
Farofa Tropikal's first music video, shot in Curitiba: the games of love in the age of the smartphone, in an Amazonian tropical beat.
View projectPale Black
Period short (1929) inspired by a story by Mário Peixoto, director of Limite. Cinematography by Carlos Ebert, shot in Lapa, Brazil. Directed by Diego Florentino.
View projectPrism
Fiction short (2013) by Matheus Marco Moraes about two friends and an unknown attraction. Premiered at the Polari Film Festival (Austin) and screened at the Rio Gay Film…
View projectFuso
Short documentary (2009) by Rudolfo Auffinger and Sônia Procópio about Alê, who works in a beauty salon in Curitiba. Screened at Cine Esquema Novo 2009.
View projectI Think, Video, I Exist
Video art (2008) by Rudolfo Auffinger juxtaposing film and television. His first festival film: NÓIA, in Fortaleza, and FBCU, in Rio de Janeiro.
View projectwhat alters the weight of things
A collection of poetic texts: "what changes the weight of things?" — an independent publication.
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