Gurcius Gewdner

Gurcius Gewdner

Born

July 30, 1982 (42 years old)

Known For

Directing

Place of Birth

Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil

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).

Tropical SOV

Tropical SOV

Voz do Rei Cocô - Segmento Viagem à Flora

10.0

2025

Capivaras na Noite

Capivaras na Noite

Ele mesmo

0.0

2024

Mr. Baiestorf's Beach Party

Mr. Baiestorf's Beach Party

Gurcius

10.0

2024

Tongues of Fire

Tongues of Fire

Sofia

0.0

2024

A Cool Day with Os Legais

A Cool Day with Os Legais

Self

0.0

2024

Trash Double

Trash Double

Voyer

0.0

2022

A Invasão dos Canibais Independentes: editando, produzindo e trabalhando com a Canibal Filmes

A Invasão dos Canibais Independentes: editando, produzindo e trabalhando com a Canibal Filmes

Host

0.0

2022

Texas Carlos Massacre

Texas Carlos Massacre

Adventure Director

5.0

2021

Sete Gatos Para Calígula

Sete Gatos Para Calígula

Calígula

0.0

2021

Beck 137

Beck 137

8.0

2021

A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus

A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus

Self

0.0

2021

Seahorse comes on horseback

Seahorse comes on horseback

Self

0.0

2021

Na cabeça de Baiestorf

Na cabeça de Baiestorf

Mamilos da Pam Grier

0.0

2020

The Frightened President

The Frightened President

Mystic

0.0

2020

Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy

Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy

Roger Corman's Voice (voice)

10.0

2020

Quem é Gurcius Gewdner?

Quem é Gurcius Gewdner?

0.0

2017

Pazucus: Island of Vomit and Despair

Pazucus: Island of Vomit and Despair

Omar

4.2

2017

A Revolta do Boêmio

A Revolta do Boêmio

Spencer trapalhão

0.0

2016

Nham-Nham, A Criatura

Nham-Nham, A Criatura

Nham Nham Voice

0.0

2015

Pressa de te amar

Pressa de te amar

The Running Man

0.0

2013

Dark Sea

Dark Sea

Bar Man

5.2

2013

Sangue Marginal

Sangue Marginal

0.0

2013

Zombio 2

Zombio 2

Pastor Davi

5.8

2013

Let Your Fans Be Your Distributor!

Let Your Fans Be Your Distributor!

Self

0.0

2013

Trash! A Série

Trash! A Série

Self · (5 episodes)

0.0

2012

Perdigotos da Discórdia

Perdigotos da Discórdia

0.0

2012

Monstrolândia

Monstrolândia

Russian on the beach

0.0

2012

The Life and Death of Reincarnation by Gurcius Gewdner

The Life and Death of Reincarnation by Gurcius Gewdner

Self

0.0

2011

Ivan

Ivan

Monteiro Lobato on Jesus

0.0

2011

Páscoa Sarnenta

Páscoa Sarnenta

0.0

2011

Ten Years Without GG Allin

Ten Years Without GG Allin

Deliquent with glasses

0.0

2010

Gurcius Gewdner Show

Gurcius Gewdner Show

The Boss

0.0

2010

Nobody Must Die

Nobody Must Die

0.0

2009

Banho Gostoso: A Produção de Mamilos em Chamas

Banho Gostoso: A Produção de Mamilos em Chamas

Narrador

0.0

2008

Flaming Nipples

Flaming Nipples

0.0

2008

The Whore with the Chainsaw

The Whore with the Chainsaw

Demented Editor

6.8

2008

Manifesto Canibal - How to Make Movies in Times of Crisis and Chaos

Manifesto Canibal - How to Make Movies in Times of Crisis and Chaos

Self

0.0

2007

The Noble Bloodsucker Politician

The Noble Bloodsucker Politician

Rich Filmaker

4.5

2007

Arrombada - I'll Piss On Your Fucking Grave!!!

Arrombada - I'll Piss On Your Fucking Grave!!!

4.9

2007

3 Cortes

3 Cortes

0.0

2006

Dead Human Collection

Dead Human Collection

Dead Gurcius

2.7

2005

New Year's Day

New Year's Day

Offender suporter

0.0

2005

The Population of Colonial Spanish America

The Population of Colonial Spanish America

Roberto Maia

0.0

2004

O Triunvirato

O Triunvirato

Director

0.0

2004

Nosferatum

Psychiatrist

0.0

2003

Atomic Beer

Atomic Beer

0.0

2003

Poluição dos Mares & Oceanos

Poluição dos Mares & Oceanos

Monstro da Poluição

0.0

1996