Ivan Cardoso

Ivan is in the Spirit of the Cardoso Filho (Born in Rio de Janeiro, October 1st, 1952) is a Brazilian photographer and filmmaker. Cardoso''s early career is mainly associated with experimental short films, such as 1971's ' Nosferatu in (Nosfaratu in Brazil, wrote poet and songrwriter Torquato Neto, of whom Cardoso, was a good friend. Though his work as an experimental filmmaker continued to develop in the short films through a career that spans for over four decades, his most famous and recognizable feature-length movies are the ones that mix the horror and comedy elements, described by Cardoso in the "terrir" ("horror" + "to laugh", which is the word for "laugh" in Brazilian Portuguese). "The Seven Vampires" ("The Seven, the Vampire Ladies, "The Secret of the Mummy" (The Secret of the Mummy), and A Werewolf in the Amazon ("The Werewolf in the Amazon Rainforest) are the prominent films among Cardoso''s terrir works. Documentaries on fellow Brazilian filmmakers, such as Glauber Rocha, and José Mojica Marins, and on plastic artists such as the fa-garte icon, Helio Oiticica, also listed among his filmography. He mantains the channels in the the websites, such as YouTube and Vimeo, where lots of his short films, from the world wide web is well-known to the most underground ones, are avaliable for free.