Fabio Rocha
Brazilian writer and helmer, passionate about memory, political cinema, experimentation and critical storytelling
Fabio Rocha is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and researcher at the postgraduate programme of Federal University of Bahia, in Brazil. He focuses on “Cinemavivo” and its connections with contemporary issues. His work explores themes such as memory and political cinema, consistently challenging narrative conventions. In his academic research, he employs a multidisciplinary approach that bridges philosophy, history, cultural studies, and film theory. In addition to producing films, he contributes to publications and curates events dedicated to independent cinema. Fábio navigates between aesthetic experimentation and critical storytelling, creating works that push the boundaries of audiovisual expression.
Other posts by Fabio Rocha
Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: The Square (number 6)
Fabio Rocha mercilessly dissects the anatomy of biopolitical cinema with Ruben Östlund's first film to win the Palme d'Or to hand, in the latest addition to his series of Foucault-inspired dirty movies
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Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: The Second Mother (number 7)
Power relations between employer and maid inside the Brazilian home are put to the test, in Fabio Rocha's latest Foucault-inspired movie (with a touch of Achille Mbembe thrown in for extra flavour)
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Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: Amour (number 8)
The fifth entry in Fabio Rocha's Foucault-inspired movies deals with biopolitics, necropolitics, the insurgency of care, the various pillars supporting the management of life
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Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: Drive My Car (number 9)
This is the fourth entry in Fabio Rocha's Foucault-inspired movies: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's ode to listening, a Hiroshima-set drama featuring post-atomic bodies and silence as a resistance weapon
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Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: All Quiet on the Western Front (number 10)
The third entry in Fabio Rocha's Foucault-inspired series of raw, visceral and gritty movies is Edward Berger's anti-war classic, a movie about honour being replaced by fear, and soldiers being robbed of their individuality
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I’m Still Here and the screams that were never heard
Just as Walter Salles's drama heads to the Oscars with real chances of becoming the first Brazilian film ever to win a statuette, Fabio Rocha discusses historical trauma, middle-class bias, explicit violence, unsung voices, and much more
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Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: A Separation (number 11)
The second entry in Fabio Rocha's his Foucault-inspired series of raw, visceral and gritty movies is a late Iranian New Wave film permeated by
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Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: Anora (number 12)
Brazilian filmmaker and researcher Fabio Rocha begins his Foucault-inspired series of raw, visceral and gritty movies with a dirty movie that rocked Cannes and much of the globe in 2024
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