Film screenings
Brazilian cinema.
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The Cinemateca Brasileira is the institution responsible for preserving and promoting Brazil's audiovisual production, based in São Paulo. Since 1940 it has restored and shared its collection, keeping about 250,000 reels of film and more than a million cinema-related documents, from photographs and scripts to books, magazines and posters, making it the largest «moving image» archive in South America. It was formally founded in 1949 as the film library of São Paulo's Museum of Modern Art and became the Cinemateca Brasileira in 1956 under its founder and chief curator Paulo Emilio Sales Gomes, and it is a founding member of the International Federation of Film Archives. Its main home is in Vila Mariana, in a listed 1887 building that served as the old municipal slaughterhouse until 1927 and was handed to the institution in 1988. It has screening rooms and an open courtyard, a treat for film lovers; check the screening programme.
Brazilian cinema.
1887.
South America's largest.
Largo Senador Raul Cardoso, Vila Mariana, São Paulo
MAC USPThe Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo was founded in 1967 minutes walk4.8
Obelisk of São PauloThe Ibirapuera Obelisk, officially the «Mausoleum of the Heroes of 32», is São P14 minutes walk
Museu Lasar SegallOn a quiet street in Vila Mariana stands a white modernist house designed in 19315 minutes walk4.6
Ibirapuera AuditoriumThe concert hall in Ibirapuera Park is by Oscar Niemeyer, the last piece of the 15 minutes walk4.9
Ibirapuera ParkIbirapuera is São Paulo's best-known park and the most visited urban park in Sou17 minutes walk4.7About 250,000 film reels and over a million cinema documents.