Associação Cultural Videobrasil

Marcellvs L. has an extensive background, including an academic education, music lessons since his childhood, and lots of reading. Even nowadays, the artist dedicates a few hours a day to studying the piano. His preferences range from Hungarian composers Béla Bartók (1881-1945) and Gyorgy Liget (1923) to Erik Satie (1866-1925) and Claude Debussy (1862-1918). His interest in music is not restricted to the universe of instrumental and classical music, as it includes more popular genres, such as rock and experimental music. His reading preferences are literature and philosophy, especially Nietzsche and Deleuze.
Marcellvs' ongoing interest in music and intense reading pace comprise his initial background, after which it also includes cinema and video. This dual interest in music and image, in addition to an old friendship with the members of the PexbaA band, have led Marcellvs closer and closer to image production. Thus, over approximately four years, from 2000 until 2003, the artist presented himself along with the band. In some of the gigs, band members were hidden behind a front stage screen. Marcellvs presented himself together with PexbaA in the Projeto Rock Contemporâneo (Contemporary Rock Project) at SESC Ipiranga, São Paulo (2002), in the III Festival Eletrônika Telemig Celular at Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte (2002), in the SXSW Festival - South by Southwest, Austin, Texas, USA (2002), and in the Projeto Rumos Itaú Cultural - Cartografia Musical Brasileira (Itaú Cultural Pathways Project - Brazilian Musical Cartography) at Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (2001), among others.

During his college days at PUC-MG's Faculdade de Comunicação e Artes (Communication and Arts College), the artist began researching videorhizomes as part for his graduation project, under the guidance of Professor André Brasil. With his videorhizomes, Marcellvs participated in a series of festivals and exhibitions such as “Brésil, Brésils”, in the Videoformes Festival, at Clermont-Ferrand, France (2005); “Abre Alas”, at Galeria A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro (2005); “Do micro ao macro: novas políticas e imagens” (From micro to macro: new policies and images), exhibited during the 6th Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, in Belo Horizonte (2004); Laboratorio Arte Alameda, in Mexico City (2004); “Uma mágica por minuto” (One magic per minute), Universidade de Passo Fundo, in Rio Grande do Sul (2004); Laisle.com Video Art Exhibition, Museu de Arte Moderna (Modern Art Museum), in Rio de Janeiro (2004); “Investigações Contemporâneas” (Contemporary Investigations), exhibition at the 14th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival), in São Paulo (2003), “Entre a casa e a metrópole” (Between the house and the metropolis), at the XXVI Intercom Congress, in Belo Horizonte (2003), among others. 

The Deleuzian thematic is also present in another enticing piece of work: the video “Deleuze while a living model” (2003). In this piece, the image of Deleuze in a TV monitor is smeared with red lipstick. The video took part in the Southern Competitive Show at the 14th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, in São Paulo (2003); in the Muestra de Cortometrajes de Minas Gerais (Minas Gerais Short Film Exhibition), at the Auditorio de la FUNCEB, Fundación Centro de Estudos Brasileiros (Brazilian Study Center Foundation), in Buenos Aires (2004); in the Cine Esquema Novo (New Scheme Cinema), at Usina do Gasômetro, in Porto Alegre, (2004); in the 7th Tiradentes Cinema Exhibition, at Centro Cultural Yves Alves, in Minas Gerais (2004), among others. The video also won the main prize at Festival do Livre Olhar (FLO - Free Look Festival), at Santander Cultural, in Porto Alegre (2003), as well as the best video award at the 5th Competitive Exhibition of Images in Motion, at Casa do Conde de Santa Marinha, in Belo Horizonte (2003).

Of all videorhizomes, “Man.Road.River”, also know as “Rizoma 0778”, is the most widely known, winning awards in several exhibitions and festivals. The video won the Grand Prize at the 51st Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (2005), the Best Experimental Film award at the Mostra do Filme Livre 2005 (Free Film Exhibition), at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, and the award in the Ousadia e Risco category (Daring and Risk) in the Festival do Livre Olhar (FLO), at Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre (2003). Recently, the artist has also received a scholarship fund from the Museu de Arte da Pampulha (Pampulha Art Museum), Belo Horizonte, and will be featured in an exhibition in the second semester of 2005 at Paço das Artes, in São Paulo.