
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).
Known For

Tropical SOV
Voz do Rei Cocô - Segmento Viagem à Flora
2025

Capivaras na Noite
Ele mesmo
2024

Mr. Baiestorf's Beach Party
Gurcius
2024

Tongues of Fire
Sofia
2024

A Cool Day with Os Legais
Self
2024

Trash Double
Voyer
2022

A Invasão dos Canibais Independentes: editando, produzindo e trabalhando com a Canibal Filmes
Host
2022

Texas Carlos Massacre
Adventure Director
2021

Sete Gatos Para Calígula
Calígula
2021

Beck 137
2021

A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus
Self
2021

Seahorse comes on horseback
Self
2021

Na cabeça de Baiestorf
Mamilos da Pam Grier
2020

The Frightened President
Mystic
2020

Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
Roger Corman's Voice (voice)
2020

Quem é Gurcius Gewdner?
2017

Pazucus: Island of Vomit and Despair
Omar
2017

A Revolta do Boêmio
Spencer trapalhão
2016

Nham-Nham, A Criatura
Nham Nham Voice
2015

Pressa de te amar
The Running Man
2013

Dark Sea
Bar Man
2013

Sangue Marginal
2013

Zombio 2
Pastor Davi
2013

Let Your Fans Be Your Distributor!
Self
2013

Trash! A Série
Self · (5 episodes)
2012

Perdigotos da Discórdia
2012

Monstrolândia
Russian on the beach
2012

The Life and Death of Reincarnation by Gurcius Gewdner
Self
2011

Ivan
Monteiro Lobato on Jesus
2011

Páscoa Sarnenta
2011

Ten Years Without GG Allin
Deliquent with glasses
2010

Gurcius Gewdner Show
The Boss
2010

Nobody Must Die
2009

Banho Gostoso: A Produção de Mamilos em Chamas
Narrador
2008

Flaming Nipples
2008

The Whore with the Chainsaw
Demented Editor
2008

Manifesto Canibal - How to Make Movies in Times of Crisis and Chaos
Self
2007

The Noble Bloodsucker Politician
Rich Filmaker
2007

Arrombada - I'll Piss On Your Fucking Grave!!!
2007

3 Cortes
2006

Dead Human Collection
Dead Gurcius
2005

New Year's Day
Offender suporter
2005

The Population of Colonial Spanish America
Roberto Maia
2004

O Triunvirato
Director
2004
Nosferatum
Psychiatrist
2003

Atomic Beer
2003

Poluição dos Mares & Oceanos
Monstro da Poluição
1996