Movies: José Leonilson

  • 2016
    JL's Passion

    JL's Passion (2016)

    JL's Passion

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    In January 1990, at the age of 33, the artist José Leonilson starts registering an intimate journal in a tape recorder. His views on events that shook both Brazil, such as the resignation of former president Collor, and overseas, such as the fall of ...

    JL's Passion
  • 1986
    Spray Jet

    Spray Jet (1986)

    Spray Jet

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    Three artists from São Paulo - Leda Catunda, Leonilson and Ciro Cozzolino - talk about their work and the rebirth of painting through pop, conceptual art and graffiti....

    Spray Jet
  • 1997
    With the Whole Ocean to Swim

    With the Whole Ocean to Swim (1997)

    With the Whole Ocean to Swim

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    The life and the work of José Leonilson, one of the most important Brazilian artists of the 80's, who died of AIDS at the age of 36 in 1993. The video explores Leonilson's poetic and intimate universe through his work and through fragments of a diary...

    With the Whole Ocean to Swim
  • 2003
    Leonilson: Many Truths

    Leonilson: Many Truths (2003)

    Leonilson: Many Truths

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    From the last notebook of Leonilson begins this documentary, in counterpoint with the initial phase of his artistic trajectory, the artistic path with some of his paintings, drawings and embroidery and his final phase with excited silences. The story...

    Leonilson: Many Truths