Tom Zé

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Oct 11, 1936 (88 years old)

Tom Zé

Known For

Anna Mariani - Photographic Notes
1h 10m
Movie 2024

Anna Mariani - Photographic Notes

The paths that the artist traveled to create two essays that are landmarks of contemporary Brazilian photography.

A Última Vanguarda
1h 41m
Movie 2024

A Última Vanguarda

70 years ago, a visionary management in education and culture as a political strategy for the dissemination and development of Bahia gave rise to an artistic vanguard that still impacts Brazilian culture today.

Homo Brasilis: Tom Zé
0h 26m
Movie 2023

Homo Brasilis: Tom Zé

Delve into the life of Antônio José Santana Martins, known as Tom Zé. Born in Bahia, this scholar of Brazilian music heads to São Paulo to propel a career filled with unusual and hilarious stories. The tropicalist artist revisits memories of his childhood in Irará, shares stories about his fellow tropicalismo movement colleagues, and reveals how his album "Estudando o Samba" won over David Byrne and launched him onto the global stage.

Dorivando Saravá, o Preto Que Virou Mar
1h 28m
Movie 2019

Dorivando Saravá, o Preto Que Virou Mar

Singer, composer, actor and painter, Dorival Caymmi was a multiple artist, but what they may not know is his pioneering work in introducing candomblé into Brazilian popular music. Recreating in a poetic way concepts present in Caymmi's work and life, the documentary revelation of the artist from his own lines, mined in old magazines.

Rito do Amor Selvagem
Movie 2019

Rito do Amor Selvagem

Tropicália: 50 Anos
Movie 2017

Tropicália: 50 Anos

Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End
1h 29m
Movie 2017

Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End

The story of Brazilian poet Torquato Neto, who lived passionately through fracturous times and worked in several fields, including music, journalism, and cinema. He was an active participant in the revolution of Tropicália and marginal art, which changed the course of Brazilian culture in the 1960s and 1970s, until he committed suicide on his 28th birthday.

O Nome Dela é Gal
3h 44m
TV Show 2017

O Nome Dela é Gal

A four-part biography on the life of the Brazilian singer Gal Costa, from her humble beginning singing in the streets of Salvador, where she became friends with many artists who would be other great names in Brazilian music in the following decades to her 50th career anniversary in 2015.

Tropicália
1h 27m
Movie 2012

Tropicália

Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the traditional Brazilian music of that time.

O Povo Brasileiro
0h 26m
TV Show 2000

O Povo Brasileiro

Directed by Isa Grinspum Ferraz, the series O Povo Brasileiro proposes a deep dive into the history of Brazil to talk about historical, social and cultural formations that constitute the identities of the Brazilian people. The production approaches from aspects of the native peoples to the formation of Brazil as a national unit, in a recreation of the literary narrative of the homonymous work written by the anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro.

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