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Claudio Szynkier

Brazilian musician, composer, visual artist and filmmaker born in central São Paulo. Has acclaimed music works under the name Babe, Terror. Has been active in Brazilian film criticism (Folha de S. Paulo, Kleber Mendonça Filho's Cinemascópio, Contracampo, Paisá) in the 1990s and early 2000s. Makes, in his own words, "garage cinema" and "phantom bedroom music" since 2007. Started for real with short…

Known For

Green VinylGreen Vinyl · 2004
Green Vinyl
★ 6.52004
MovieDramaHorror
A mother gives her daughter a box full of old, coloured little vinyl records. The daughter may listen to them, but she should never, ever, play the green one.
Rhonda HighlandsRhonda Highlands · 2020
Rhonda Highlands
2020
MovieAdventureMusic
A natural study on the motorcycles fauna in São Paulo at the beginning of Covid19 pandemic. Filmed in the early fall 2020, this is Claudio Szynkier's first formal experience with cinema, music and the city. The film is a short musical effort, developed and improvised along a post-quarantine afternoon ride.
The PolesThe Poles · 2020
The Poles
2020
MovieMusicDocumentary
Just before the Covid surge, a tour through futuristic carnivals of antiquity and the latest versions of things in São Paulo before the outbreak. Cars, bicycles and vehicles powered by petrochemicals still take one last ride in normality. In another parallel world, Carnival takes place in its various forms.
The Rangoon PrincessThe Rangoon Princess · 2023
The Rangoon Princess
2023
MovieDramaMusic
Apparitions, mystical presences and lost stories from São Paulo and Rangoon are discovered over the course of a summer in the future. São Paulo spots are visited by people from the same family in 1991 and then around 30 or 40 years later. Meanwhile, family archives and memories in Tropical America and in Magical Asia are revealed.
Friday Night, Saturday MorningFriday Night, Saturday Morning · 2006
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
★ 5.42006
MovieDramaRomance
A small-scale romantic love story, shot with a digital camera in black & white and in a documentary style. We follow the conversation between two lovers, each on a different side of the world; he is in Recife, she is in Kyiv. On one side is dark, on the other light, but both experience the same emotions and hence feel nearness and contact.
EletrodomésticaEletrodoméstica · 2005
Eletrodoméstica
★ 6.42005
MovieComedyDrama
A middle-class family living in a house filled with superfluous electronic appliances see the arrival of a new item, a 29" TV-set.

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