TADEU JUNGLE

Is a Brazilian multimedia artist, with work in the areas of video, photography, installations, visual poetry and Virtual Reality; and with a career as a TV and film screenwriter and director.

Born (1956) and lives in São Paulo, SP.

Graduated with a degree in Radio and Television from the University of São Paulo’s School of Communication and Arts (ECA/USP) and, won a scholarship from the Brazilian Ministry of Education, to study at the San Francisco State University in the U.S.

At the end of the 1970’s, began the movement of poetic graffiti on the streets of the city of São Paulo and published poems on small stickers. Worked on mail art for several years. Created various video sculptures and video installations at various galleries and museums. Exhibited videos at the XXIV International Biennial of Sao Paulo. Since 1982 has been making experimental videos, all of which have won prizes in Brazilian festivals and many of which have been shown in exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. Wrote the first column specialized in video to appear in the daily Brazilian press, at the newspaper Folha de São Paulo. In 1986 founded Brazil’s first school for video, the Academia Brasileira de Video. Has various videos included in the anthology “Made in Brazil” – 30 Years of Video Art in Brazil, organized by Arlindo Machado. Since 2003 has been creating the project MONDAY PHOTO on the Internet: a work in progress http://bit.ly/fotodesegunda His first feature film TOMORROW NEVER AGAIN, was released by Fox Films in 2011. http://bit.ly/amanhafox . EVOÉ, Portrait of an Anthropophage, is a full-length documentary about the dramatist Zé Celso Martinez Correa, released also in 2011. Watch the complete film with English subtitles here. Directs the first Brazilian documentary in Virtual Reality titled RIVER OF MUD, about the worst environmental disater in Brazil, and the first film in Virtual Reality made with the Indians of the Xingu: FIRE IN THE FOREST. Find more about him here

Work

2018

• Launches JUNGLEBEE, a Virtual and Augmented Reality production company.
• participates in two panels and coordinates three innovation pitching tables in RIO2C.

2017

• Launches the virtual reality documentary "FIRE IN THE FOREST, a day in the village of the Waura people", at the IT´S ALL TRUE Festival.
• Launches the documentary (60') LAND OF FIGHT, about the origins of the fight in Brazil - Combate Channel.
• The RIVER OF MUD virtual reality documentary about the tragedy of Mariana participates in the festivals Sunny Side of the Doc (France), Tampere Film Festival (Finland), Cineamazonia and Festival of Goiás (Brazil).
• Directs the documentary in virtual reality "SP DE PONTA A PONTA, a trip through the city of São Paulo on a motorcycle", for the newspaper FOLHA DE S.PAULO.
• Directs the documentary "TERRA DE LUTA, the origins of the fight in Brazil", for the Combate Channel, within the series ESPÍRITO DA LUTA..
• Blog with daily short texts and pictures on the FESTIVAL SXSW 2017 for the newspaper Meio & Mensagem.
• Give a talk about Virtual Reality at the PATH Festival.

• Launches River of Mud, the VR documentary short film about the worst environmental disaster in Brazil, the tragedy of Mariana.
• River of Mud is exhibited at the 32nd Biennial of São Paulo, in the Ocataperaterreiro, by Bené Fonteles and at the Sunny Side of the Doc Festival in France. Won a prize in 14th Cineamazonia Festival.
• Jury at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in the Entertainment category.
• Collective exhibition of Visual Poetry at Galeria Baró, SP and at Casa das Rosas, SP.
• Lecture on Virtual Reality in UNESCO's Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week; In the Folha de São Paulo and Estado de São Paulo newspapers, at the RioContent Market, at the Anhembi-Morumbi University, at the Brazilian Cinematography Association (ABC), at the Paraná Creation Club, at the Telas Forum Audiovisual Market and at the NBS and McCann-Rio advertising agencies.

2015

• Creates VERSUS - a 4K video installation for the itinerant exhibition of the Football Museum, São Paulo.
• Creates a video installation for Human Room for the Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro.
• Performance with Walter Silveira at the opening of the “ARTÉRIA 40 Years” exhibition at Caixa Cultural, RJ

2014

• Launches the book Tadeu Jungle – Videofotopoesia / Videophotopoetry with an overview of his work in these areas. Instituto Oi Futuro.
• Camarim, series of 16 videos with puppets for the Greenpeace on the 2014 Brazilian presidential elections. With Fernando Salem e Fernando Gomes.
• The video installation Versus travels with the collective exhibition “Brasil, um País, um Mundo” through the country.
• Musicália, a children’s musical program. Created with Fernando Salem for the production company Maria Farinha Filmes.
• Launches on the internet the video-poem Tatu-Bola Não Bebe Coca-Cola and also at the MAR _ Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro.

2013

• 2100, a dramatic fiction series for TV with 13 episodes, 50’ each written with Estela Renner and André Sirângelo. Not yet produced.
• Videofotopoesia solo exhibition with video installation, site specific installation, and visual poems, at the Instituto Oi Futuro, Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro.
• “Mitologias por Procuração”, collective exhibition, visual poem Tudo Pode (Perder-se) at MAM-SP.
• “Circuitos Cruzados, o MAM Encontra o Centre Pompidou”, collective exhibition, video São Paulo Hip Hop, at MAM-SP. - Videoarte 2013, collective exhibition, video Medo, at Instituto Oi Futuro Ipanema.

2012

• Retrospective of his films and videos at Cinemateca Brasileira, São Paulo.
• Directs two videos for the Museu do Amanhã debut in Rio de Janeiro.
• Directs a series of five documentary programs about Brazilian television, for channel VIVA.

2011

• Debuts the documentary Evoé, a feature film about the playwright Zé Celso, of Teatro Oficina. With Elaine Cesar. Itaú Cultural.
• Debuts at the cinema the feature film Amanhã Nunca Mais, with Lázaro Ramos as the protagonist. Fox Filmes.
• He works as creative director at BAND TV.
• Exhibition of Amores Expressos, from May to August, on TV Cultura.
• Exhibition “Ela Faz Cinema”, an episode of Amor em Quatro Atos, on Rede Globo.
• Flecha, performance at Instituto Oi Futuro Ipanema and Escola São Paulo.
• Air performance of the poem Você Está Aqui on Ipanema beach, in the event Transperformance, Oi Futuro.
  

2010

• Writes (with Estela Renner) and directs “Ela Faz Cinema”, the episode based on the lyrics by Chico Buarque for the miniseries Amor em Quatro Atos, Globo TV.
• Signs of Life in Mars, video for the project Mars 2016, NASA with Carlos Rennó.
• Directs the humor series É Tudo Improviso for BAND TV.

2009

• Shoots the feature film Amanhã Nunca Mais.
  

2008

• “Parque das Aparências”, photography and video exhibition at Valu Ória Galllery, São Paulo.
• Sala da Exaltação, video installation at the Museu do Futebol, São Paulo.
  

2007

• Directs the documentary Amazônia Niemeyer – Uma Viagem pela Belém-Brasília, winner of the incentive award from Janela Brasil 2007, TV Cultura.
• Directs sixteen TV documentaries from the Amores Expressos project: 16 writers sent to 16 locations around the world, with the purpose of writing a love story. With Estela Renner.
• Directs the DVD Ao Vivo no Estúdio of the poet and singer Arnaldo Antunes.
• “Video Links Brazil”, collective exhibition, where he presents the video Heróis 2 at the Tate Gallery, London.
  

2006

• Directs the documentary for perennial exhibition at the auditorium of the Museu da Língua Portuguesa in São Paulo. With Marcelo Presotto.
• Distributes the DVD Audiovisual, collection with a new series of videoart.
• Launches Álbum de Segunda, a book-catalog with the photos of the Monday Pictures project, FNAC, São Paulo.
  

2005

• Directs the short film Passarela: O Mundo da Moda.
• Videoart Rua, Rua, Rua: Traffic as a Constructive Element.
• Videoart Enigmar: A Poem About the Sea.
• Photo essay Mulheres de Areia.
• “Veracidade”, collective exhibition, MAM-SP.
  

2004

• Videoart Us: American Intervention in Iraq.
• Videoart Coluna Vertebral: A Poem About the Principle
• Videoart Todo o Verbo É uma Ilha: A Poem About Loneliness.
• Starts the photo essay Povo da Praia, where he travels to make portraits of people on the Brazilian beaches (until 2005).
• “Chão” e “O Espetáculo da Solidão”, two simultaneous exhibitions at Valu Oria Gallery, with photos, videos and visual poems.
  

2003

• Versus, video installation about football, at MIS-SP.
• Directs the Zeca Baleiro’s DVD, Pet Shop Mundo Cão.
• São Paulo Rock and Roll and São Paulo Hip Hop, videoart about how big cities are seen today, after Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43) by Piet Mondrian.
• Onde Estão os Heróis?, mega performance in honor of the poet Waly Salomão at Videobrasil Festival, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo.
• “Heavy Rain”, photograph exhibition, is “published” on the Internet.
• “2080”, collective exhibition at MAM-SP.
• “A Subversão dos Meios and Made in Brasil – 3 Décadas de Vídeo no Brasil”, collective exhibition, Itaú Cultural.
• Tudo Pode (Perder-se), unauthorized urban installation in São Paulo.
  

2002

• Directs the short film Pesar selected for Videobrasil Festival 2003.
• Sempre Tem Mais, videoart selected for the exhibit First Latin American and Caribbean Video Art Exhibit.
• Art!, unauthorized performance during the opening of the XXV Biennial of São Paulo.
• TV Carnaval, photo essay with pictures of the Carnival on TV.
• “Estradas, Camas, Reflexões”, solo exhibition at Valu Oria Gallery, São Paulo, where he presented 44 photographs on fabric, linoleum and steel, plus two videos.
• Directs DVDs of plays Cacilda!, Bacantes, Ham-let and Boca de Ouro by José Celso Martinez Correa, at the Teatro Oficina.
• Tudo Pode (Perder-se) videoart about Loss.
• Sempre Tem Mais, video about the Pathway.
• Cortinas and Permeabiles, two photo essays.
  

2001

• Kamerazman, footballistic performance and video installation project.
• Casais, photo essay about couples (finalized in 2003, unpublished).
• Play God, poems stickers, (charts with 8 poems, 4 x 4 cm each; 32,000 printed stickers).
• Poemas de Arame, série de poemas visuais num caderno, an unique copy.
  

2000

• Retrospective of his videos at the MIS, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo.
• Muleque Trabalhador, music video for the Caboclada Band.
• Proibida pra Mim, music video for Zeca Baleiro.
• Fala Rosa!, video installation about the writer Guimarães Rosa, Casa das Rosas, São Paulo.
• Pessoas do Brasil, video installation for the Expo 2000 in Hannover. With Carlos Rennó.
  

1999

• Filhos da Precisão, music video for Rita Ribeiro.
  

1998

• Hosts the educational program Cine Profissões at TV Futura (until 2001).
  

1997

• Tecnobomber, performance at Casa das Rosas, São Paulo.
• Você Está Aqui, sticker poem (charts with 4 poems, 4 x 4 cm each, 10,000 copies printed and over 1,000 translated into English), launched as a large installation with multiple platforms in Valu Oria Gallery, São Paulo.
  

1996

• Silêncio, music video for Arnaldo Antunes.
  

1995

• Poder, music video for Arnaldo Antunes.
  

1993

• Begins to direct advertising films, and until today, he has made more than 600 for the major agencies of the country.
  

1991

• Directs the TV program with international interviews, Gente de Expressão, with Bruna Lombardi (until 1992).
  

1990

• OSVIDEO, a giant video-based installation, paintings and sculptures on Oswald de Andrade at São Paulo Gallery.
• Sleeping Television, video installation at the Festival Mundial do Minuto.
• The visual poem Changes is printed on 120 T-shirts.
  

1989

• Exhibits the video installation River de Janeiro, at the Laura Alvim Gallery within the project Tucano Artes (Rio de Janeiro), along with Walter Silveira.
• Directs and presents the humorous/musical/journalistic program TV da Tribo, weekly on BAND TV.
  

1988

• Directs the variety program TV MIX, daily and live on TV Gazeta, São Paulo (until 1989).
  

1987

• O Edifício, in the exhibition “Trama do Gosto”, Bienal de São Paulo. With Walter Silveira, Roberto Sandoval and Geraldo Anhaia Mello.
• Heróis da Decadênsia (sic), the award-winning video at Videobrasil and selected for the Havana Festival.
• Caipira In, video and installation of the same name at Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo. With Walter Silveira, Roberto Sandoval, and Geraldo Anhaia Mello.
  

1986

• The Helicóptero, a video installation at the Wesley Duke Lee exhibition, São Paulo Gallery. With Walter Silveira.
• Ryth Moz, award-winning video at Videobrasil and at Santo André Festival.
• Founds the first video school of the country, The Academia Brasileira de Vídeo, with Walter Silveira, João Carmo Clodomiro, and Ivo Alves Ribeiro.
• Performs various visual calligraphic poems such as Enjaulado; Ferida 2; Gugu-Gagá; O Indizível; Paixão 6; Silence (tormento); Um Bilhetinho; Ziúme.
  

1985

• Non Plus Ultra, award-winning video at Videobrasil and at Fest Rio.
• Odeio Música, music video for Péricles Cavalcanti.
  

1984

• Ivald Granato in Performance, award-winning video at Videobrasil. Exhibit at The Kitchen, Nova York. With Walter Silveira.
• Creates and directs a series of documentaries about TV: Avesso, TV Cultura.
  

1983

• Hosts the musical program Fábrica do Som, TV Cultura.
• Frau, award-winning video at Videobrasil and Fest Rio 84/85. With Isa Castro and Walter Silveira.
• Makes six video-objects and three video installations for Videobrasil Festival, MIS-SP. With TVDO.
• Foi Fondo, album in China ink on paper, single copy.
  

1981/82

• Presented with a scholarship from CAPES, Ministry of Education, Brazil, goes to San Francisco State University for his MA in Television and directs the documentary Where Are You? about the information manipulation by the media.
  

1981

• Frequência das Aranha (sic), visual poetry album (offset, spray on glossy paper, 500 copies, author’s edition)
• Calendário Proibido, poem done in offset, 1,000 copies, never been distributed. With Walter Silveira.
• Start publishing poetry in magazines like Almanak and Artéria.
• Co-directs with Nelson Motta and TVDO the program Mocidade Independente on BAND TV.
  

1980

• Works one year at the Teatro Oficina with Walter Silveira creating the Festa de Letras, installation in which they painted the whole theater with all participants’ names in the film O Rei da Vela, by Zé Celso Martinez Correa.
• Suruba, visual poetry album (offset, 500 copies, author’s edition).
• Creates the visual poem Contos Encrisis printed as a stamp on money paper and, É Longe pra Caralho, printed on photographic prints (40 copies).
• Starts the series of visual poems in poster size (66 x 96 cm) as the Ideograma para Yoko.
• Starts the production of Cadernos Diários. He maintains them until today.
  

1979

• Makes poetic graffiti on the streets of São Paulo: Tiganho Gatinha; Ora H, and Édificil (until 1981).
• Creates visual poems, as Mete Remete and distributes by mail: Mail Art (until 1981).
• Passe a Mão, sticker poem (3 x 7 cm, 5,000 copies)
• Sobreviverei 80, poem printed on 50 T-shirts.
• “Multimedia Internacional” exhibition with 108 artists from 20 countries at ECA/USP. Idealized with Walter Silveira and supervision by Walter Zanini.
  

1978

• Creates the first sticker poem: Fure Fila (2 x 5 cm, 1.000 copies)