The Red Light Bandit
@ The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, October 24th, from 7PM - 9PM
The Red Light Bandit
(Rogério Sganzerla, 1968, Brazil, DCP, 92 min)
This delirious “Third World western” offers a subversive, New Wave-inspired spin through the trash heap of Brazilian pop culture. With The Red Light Bandit, a farcical account of a real-life serial criminal made larger-than-life by the news media, 21-year-old director Rogério Sganzerla delivered the signature work of Brazil’s Cinema Marginal, a radical film movement dedicated to the rejection of good taste. “I will never deliver clear ideas, eloquent speeches, or classically beautiful images when confronted with garbage,” Sganzerla declared; “I will only reveal, through free sound and funereal rhythm, our own condition as ill-behaved, colonized people. Within the garbage can, one must be radical.”
About the Pop América Series:
Pop América, 1965-1975 presents Pop Art as a cultural dialogue transgressing the borders of nations, the boundaries of media, and the limits of “good taste.” The same can be said of these two films, made in Brazil and the United States, which speak to each other in languages borrowed equally from advertisements, news reports, soap operas, and the avant-garde.
Pop América
Thursday, October 24, 7 PM
FREE
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Tags: Chicago, Evanston, Pop América, Rogério Sganzerla, The Block Museum, The Red Light Bandit
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