Gerson Tavares

Ensino Artístico

Gerson Tavares

The documentary discusses the importance of artistic teaching in the elementary school curriculum, showing the role of the arts - be it music, painting, sculpture, theater or cinema - in the training of students.

Saveiros

Gerson Tavares

Gerson Tavares interviews fishermen and observes the traditional fishing activity in danger of extinction.

Before the Summer

Gerson Tavares

Jardel Filho, Norma Bengell

A middle-aged man builds a summer house in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro. Married to a beautiful woman, father of two and successful career, the house is a symbol of his personal achievements. But as the wind, the salt and the sand threaten to invade the breaches of the house, their marriage begins to crumble. And like a bad omen, a mysterious murder takes place in the vicinity.

Brasília, Capital do Século

Gerson Tavares

The construction of the Brasilia dream is blurred in precious scenes that preceded the opening of the city, filmed as sombre. What will be the future of these buildings and monuments? What will become of the future of these workers?

Gafieira

Gerson Tavares

One Saturday night at a Rio carnival. Filmed in the famous 'Elite', using direct sound, it faithfully documents all the stages of the party: the preparation of the hall, the bar, the regulars, the orchestra, the music, the dance and the characteristic types, all forming a large panel popular power and poetry.

Amor e Desamor

Gerson Tavares

Leonardo Villar, Leina Krespi

An existentialist drama that narrates one night in the life of a couple formed by an architect and university professor who has just left his job and a modern married woman, interested in a casual love affair.

O grande rio

Gerson Tavares

A trip made by Gerson Tavares in 1949, when he was a painting student, accompanying the São Francisco River from the Northeast region to Southeast Brazil, showing the authentic and backward interior of the country.

A Petrobrás prepara o seu pessoal técnico

Gerson Tavares

Cid Moreira

Institutional film made for Petrobras in 1958, through a public announcement, about the company's actions for the training of technicians specialized in petroleum engineering.

Art in Brazil Today

Gerson Tavares

Lúcio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer

Documentary about the works

Reencontro com o Cinema

Rafael de Luna Freire

Gerson Tavares, Hernani Heffner

From a screening of "Antes, o Verão" (1968) in the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Artes of Rio de Janeiro, in 2005, "Reencontro com o Cinema" follows the rediscovery of the life and works of filmmaker Gerson Tavares, who hadn't worked with cinema in 30 years.