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).
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Movies (94)
Memórias de um Figurante sem Nome e Outros Notáveis da Figuração
2026 · Music
Tropical SOV: Bizarre Sci-fi Samba
2026 · Voz - Segmento Cachoeira de Arroz, Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Original Music Composer, Camera Operator, Animation
Bowels of Hell
2026 · Director, Screenplay
Canibal Filmes em Um Minuto
2025 · Ele mesmo
Tropical SOV
2025 · Voz do Rei Cocô - Segmento Viagem à Flora
Capivaras na Noite
2024 · Ele mesmo
Mr. Baiestorf's Beach Party
2024 · Gurcius
Tongues of Fire
2024 · Sofia
A Cool Day with Os Legais
2024 · Self, Producer
Pazukids - Edgar em Busca de Carlos na Ilha do Desarrêgo
2023 · Original Film Writer
Pe ataju jumali / Hot air
2023 · Editor, Associate Producer
Trash Double
2022 · Voyer, Director, Screenplay, Music, Producer, Editor
A Invasão dos Canibais Independentes: editando, produzindo e trabalhando com a Canibal Filmes
2022 · Host, Editor, Writer, Director
Texas Carlos Massacre
2021 · Adventure Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer, Director
Quarantine in the Empire - Isolation of the Famous
2021 · Editor, Screenplay, Producer
Symbolicus Vol. 1
2021 · Director
Sete Gatos Para Calígula
2021 · Calígula, Director, Writer
Beck 137
2021 · Editor
A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus
2021 · Self, Writer, Director, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography, Songs
Seahorse comes on horseback
2021 · Self, Director, Editor, Screenplay
Living Breath
2021 · Editor, Producer
Holyterror
2020 · Additional Photography
Na cabeça de Baiestorf
2020 · Mamilos da Pam Grier
Ivan, the TerrirBle
2020 · Editor
The Frightened President
2020 · Mystic, Writer
290 Poisons
2020 · Editor
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
2020 · Roger Corman's Voice (voice), Screenplay, Associate Producer, Music Coordinator, Director of Photography, Editor
Lieder die Soldaten Morgen
2019 · Editor, Producer, Screenplay, Director
Until the end of the world
2018 · Producer, Editor, Musical Casting
Serguei - The Last Psychedelic
2017 · Editor
Quem é Gurcius Gewdner?
2017 · Music
Pazucus: Island of Vomit and Despair
2017 · Omar, Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Producer, Director
Uptake Fear
2015 · Second Unit Director, Editor, Producer
Nham-Nham, A Criatura
2015 · Nham-Nham (Voice), Vocals
Good Morning Carlos
2015 · Director
Lunch in the Grass
2014 · Director, Writer
Pressa de te amar
2013 · The Running Man, Director, Animation, Screenplay
Orgy of the Devil and Other Forbidden Tapes of Ivan Cardoso
2013 · Editor, Writer, Music Coordinator
Dark Sea
2013 · Bar Man
Astros em Rotação
2013 · Editor
Crazy Rally
2013 · Writer, Editor
Sangue Marginal
2013 · Cinematography
A História do Olho
2013 · Editor, Music Consultant
Zombio 2
2013 · Pastor Davi, Editor, Associate Producer, Sound Editor
Let Your Fans Be Your Distributor!
2013 · Self
Erivaldo, o Astronauta Místico
2013 · Cinematography, Writer, Music, Producer, Editor, Director
A Normalista e o Anormal
2013 · Editor, Music Consultant
O Homem do Cérebro que Virou Chicletes
2013 · Editor
Go Back
2013 · Editor
Nas Asas do Caixão
2012 · Associate Producer, Editor
Ulisses
2012 · Editor
O Terno do Zé
2012 · Set Decoration
Bo Cage
2012 · Editor
How to Irritate Hardcore Dandies
2012 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Screenplay
Perdigotos da Discórdia
2012 · Director, Writer
Monstrolândia
2012 · Russian on the beach, Editor, Associate Producer
O Fim do Mundo no Morrinho
2012 · Director
Rota 69
2012 · Editor
Folias em Bagdá
2012 · Editor
Com a Boca na Botija
2012 · Editor
A Brasa do Norte
2012 · Editor
The Life and Death of Reincarnation by Gurcius Gewdner
2011 · Self, Archival Footage Research
Páscoa Sarnenta
2011
The Sweet Advance of the Knife
2010 · Associate Producer, Editor, Sound Editor
Freddy Breck Ballet
2010 · Editor, Producer, Writer, Director
Ten Years Without GG Allin
2010 · Deliquent with glasses, Director, Editor, Screenplay
Gurcius Gewdner Show
2010 · The Boss
Tatuada
2009 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Screenplay
Daddy Mangy
2009 · Editor, Associate Producer
Nobody Must Die
2009 · Ninguém, Producer, Editor, Sound Editor
Guidable: The Real History of Ratos de Porão
2008 · Production Assistant
Eu Sou um Pequeno Panda
2008 · Director, Editor, Script, Director of Photography, Writer
Homens & Algas
2008 · Editor, Producer
Banho Gostoso: A Produção de Mamilos em Chamas
2008 · Narrador, Writer, Original Music Composer, Editor, Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Flaming Nipples
2008 · Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
The Whore with the Chainsaw
2008 · Demented Editor, Executive Producer, Editor
Tudo Começou quando Mamãe conheceu Papai
2007 · Director
Imaginary Friend
2007 · Director
Manifesto Canibal - How to Make Movies in Times of Crisis and Chaos
2007 · Self, Editor, Associate Producer
The Noble Bloodsucker Politician
2007 · Rich Filmaker, Editor, Associate Producer
Arrombada - I'll Piss On Your Fucking Grave!!!
2007 · Médico de sua família, Producer, Editor
Love on Uranus
2007 · Editor, Associate Producer
3 Cortes
2006
The Enjoyment of the Avacalho
2006 · Editor, Associate Producer
The Leguminous Monster from Outer Space 2
2006 · Associate Producer, Editor
Dead Human Collection
2005 · Dead Gurcius
Sad Clown
2005 · Editor, Music Co-Supervisor
New Year's Day
2005 · Offender suporter, Director, Director of Photography, Music Coordinator, Writers' Assistant
The Population of Colonial Spanish America
2004 · Roberto Maia, Director, Screenplay, Music Score Producer
O Triunvirato
2004 · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Cinematography, Music
Nosferatum
2003 · Psychiatrist, Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer
Atomic Beer
2003 · Pastor, Editor
Poluição dos Mares & Oceanos
1996 · Monstro da Poluição, Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Screenplay
Mutant Maniacs
1996 · Editor
