POSTERS
Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol
(‘God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun’)
Directed by Glauber Rocha
1964, 74 x 108 cm
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Rogério Duarte was friends from youth with Glauber Rocha, who was to
become the foremost film-maker of his generation. The two collaborated together
on many projects in Bahia and later in Rio, and shared artistic ideas and musical
tastes. Rogério created the poster for Rocha’s first film Deus
e o Diabo em na Terra do Sol (‘God and the Devil in the land of the Sun’),
a true icon of Brazilian design and an emblem of its era. The poster, like much
of his work in that time, was manually constructed by imposing one visual element
upon another, even using a repeatedly rotated animal tooth to create the rays
in the ultimate magenta layer. The movie itself was a primitive and collaborative
depiction of a couple’s rebellion from rural poverty and descent into
millenarian fantasy, psychosis and outlawry in the blasted arid sertão
of Bahia’s interior. The film pioneered Cinema Novo, which articulated
the contradictions of the country through visionary prisms akin to neo-realism,
surrealism and Rogério himself (by no coincidence).
