Paris, December 28, 1895 Antoine Gustave Marasco was anxious when he took the way to the Boulevard des Capucines heading to the Grand Cafe. Before that, however, he became the first spectator of a commercial movie screening. The magic came by by the hands of two brothers that already had a name filled with light, the Lumière, sons of Antoine, who always warned his sons that that was an invention with no future. Quite the contrary. Cinema invented the future; Men could finally be eternal and ...

Humberto Mauro is the first major figure of Brazilian cinema and its first auteur. In 1963, while his fiction films had fallen into oblivion, Mauro was the only film-maker, together with Mario Peixoto, to find favour with Glauber Rocha who considered him as the father of cinema novo.The Cataguases cycle Humberto Mauro was born in 1897 in Minais Geiras. He made his first film, Valadião o Cratera, in 1925 in the small town of Catagueses with a 9.5mm camera. This was going to be the beginning of a...