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Biography
| 1979 | On 19 March, Ava Patria Yndia
Yracema Gaetan Rocha is born. She is Rocha's and Paula Gaetan's daughter. On Good Friday, Rocha edits a special supplement about the Crucifixion, for the Correio Braziliense newspaper. In June, Cabezas Cortadas, preceded by Di, has its premiere in Rio. But the exhibition of the short-length film is soon halted by the painter's daughter beside court warrant. Besides Pasquim and Correio Braziliense, Rocha also writes regularly to the Brazilian newspapers Folha de São Paulo, Jornal do Brasil and Enfim. Fernando Barbosa Lima invites Rocha to participate in the TV program Abertura. It instantly becomes a great success. Rocha directs, speaks, interviews and improvises in front of the camera. |
| 1980 | On 6 June, his father dies. On 2 September, The Age of the Earth is screened at the International Cinema Festival of Venice, but it displeases the critics. After the release of the official results, Rocha quarrels with and insults Louis Malle, calling him a fascist and second category film maker. He also attacks the directors of the Festival, which, accordingly to him, favoured the commercial cinema. Because of the scandal, The Age of the Earth was left out of the Iberian and Latin-American Cinema of Biarritz. In December, he goes to Paris to assist a retrospective of his films. . |
| 1981 | He meets the Brazilian president João
Baptista Figueiredo in Cintra, Portugal. In Lisbon, the Glauber Rocha
Retrospective is stopped because of a fire, on the fourth day of exhibition.
Some copies are destroyed by the fire. In Brazil, Embrafilme and Alhambra publish Revolução do Cinema Novo, a collection of articles by and interviews with Glauber Rocha, organized by him. Because of health problems that had been aggravating since March, Rocha goes to hospital in the beginning of August, a hospital near Lisbon, where he undergoes a bronchopulmonary treatment. On 21 August, he is brought back to Brazil. He dies just after he is taken to a hospital in Rio. Starting from then, his films woud be shown in retrospective exhibitions in many countries, like Brazil (in many States), England, (National Film Institute), France (Institut Nacional d'Études Cinematographiques) and USA (American Film Institute). On 31 August, The Age of the Earth is launched for a second time, in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador. In September, the International Festival of Figueira da Foz, Portugal, and the Encuentro de Intelectuales por la Soberania de los Pueblos de Nuestra America, in Havana, Cuba, do homages to Glauber Rocha. |
| 1982 | Raquel Gerber publishes the book O Mito
da Civilização Atlântica: Glauber Rocha, Cinema, Política e a Estética
do Inconsciente ( The Myth of the Atlantic Civilization: Glauber Rocha,
Cinema, Politics and the Aesthetics of the Unconscious). Pedro del Picchia and Virgínia Murano publish the book Glauber, o Leão de Veneza (Glauber, the Lion of Venice), which consists of a long interview with Glauber Rocha about the participation of The Age of the Earth in the Festival. |
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