Ferreira Gullar

Personal Info

Birthday

September 10, 1930

Day of Death

2016-12-04

(86 years old)

Place of Birth

São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil

Ferreira Gullar

Biography

Ferreira Gullar, pseudonym of José Ribamar Ferreira (São Luís, September 10, 1930 – Rio de Janeiro, December 4, 2016), was a Brazilian writer, poet, art critic, biographer, translator, memoirist and essayist and one of the founders of neoconcretism. He was the candidate for chair 37 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, in the vacancy left by Ivan Junqueira, of which he took office on December 5, 2014.

Known For

Lima Barreto: Trajetória

Twenty Years Later

Imagens do Inconsciente: A Barca do Sol

The Heirs

ABC of a Strike

Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City

Gabeira

Plantar nas Estrelas

Filmography

2019
Ferreira Gullar: Arqueologia do Poeta
as Self
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Gabeira
as Ferreira Gullar
2015
Estrada de Sonhos
as himself
2013
Dossiê Jango
as Self
Darcy, um Brasileiro
as Self
2010
Poema Sujo
as Self
Formas do Afeto
as Himself
2009
Flávio Rangel - O Teatro na Palma da Mão
as Self
2007
Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a Breath of Air
as Self
2005
Vinicius de Moraes
as Self
João do Vale, Muita Gente Desconhece
as Self
A Degola Fatal
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
as Self (voice)
2002
Poeta de Sete Faces
as Self
1997
The Comrade: The Life of Luiz Carlos Prestes
as Himself
1991
The Memory Thread
as Narrator
1990
ABC of a Strike
as Narrator
1987
Imagens do Inconsciente: A Barca do Sol
as Narrador
Images of the Unconscious
as Narrator (voice)
1984
Twenty Years Later
as Narrator
Memória da Vida e do Trabalho
as Narrador
1983
Vinicius de Moraes, Um Rapaz de Família
as Self
1981
Iya-Mi-Agbá
as Narrator
1979
HO
as Self
1978
Plantar nas Estrelas
as narrador
O Aleijadinho
as Narrator
Waldemar Henrique canta Belém
as Narrador
1976
Cantos de Trabalho - Cacau
as Narrator (voice)
Cantos de Trabalho - Cana de Açúcar
as Narrator (voice)
1975
Cinema Brasileiro, Mercado Ocupado
as Narrator (voice)
1970
The Heirs
as Davi Martins
The Language of Persuasion
as Narrador
1969
O Guesa
as Narrador
1968
On Borrowed Time
as Chefe da redação
Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City
as Narrator (voice)
1966
Lima Barreto: Trajetória
as Narrador
1964
Maioria absoluta
as Narrator (voice)