Petter Baiestorf

Overview

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Birthday
Nov 13, 1974 (50 years old)

Petter Baiestorf

Known For

Blaszany Globus - Globo de Lata
Movie 2025

Blaszany Globus - Globo de Lata

Art of Splatter: A Journey Into the Entrails of Brazilian Goregrind
1h 55m
Movie 2025

Art of Splatter: A Journey Into the Entrails of Brazilian Goregrind

Documentary about the brazilian goregrind movement

Demon
0h 2m
Movie 2025

Demon

A short essay on our inner demons. Baiestorf recreates the nightmare narrated by teenagers from various parts of the world, who have this dream on a recurring basis.

Chibamar Bronx is Back in Town
0h 8m
Movie 2024

Chibamar Bronx is Back in Town

Chibamar Bronx is back in a delirious, lysergic short film about very strange investigations.

Mato Mato Mato - Canibal Filmes e as Produções de 'Horor' no Oeste de SC
0h 49m
Movie 2023

Mato Mato Mato - Canibal Filmes e as Produções de 'Horor' no Oeste de SC

In 1992, a group of teenagers began recording horror films with VHS cameras in Palmitos, in the west of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Led by Santa Catarina director Petter Baiestorf, the production company came to be called Canibal Filmes. Far from large urban centers and in times of stagnation in Brazilian cinema, the group learned in practice how to make low-budget cinema. The films found their own way of financing and showing to the public. Through reports, photographs, documents and videos, the documentary covers Canibal's early years, retracing the group's efforts and challenges in making independent cinema in a region with no cinematic tradition.

Biography

Pioneer videomaker of independent Brazilian video productions. Exponent of the national gore with direct influence from directors such as John Waters, George Kuchar and José Mojica Marins. In the 90s of the last century, with the collaboration of Coffin Souza and Canibal Produções, he created the aesthetic of “Kanibaru Sinema” (films produced in any format with a zero budget). Born in 1974, Petter Baiestorf grew up in Vila Oldenburgo (Palmitos - SC), living with farmers and workers in the wood and ceramic industry. Self-taught, atheist, anarchist, free-thinker and owner of a difficult personality, he became a teenage poet in 1988, publishing his poems and anti-religious in fanzines such as "Arghhh" (1992), "Necrofilia" (1992), "Clássicos canibal" (1994), "Pus Diet" (1994), "Brazilian Trash Cinema" (2000), "O Viajante Cósmico" (2003) and "Bebuns Bêbados Que Escrevem" (2003). He founded Canibal Produções in 1991, with his friend E. B. Toniolli, who, in 1996, became Canibal-Mabuse Produções by associating with Cesar (Coffin) Souza and, in 2000, became the current Canibal Filmes. In 1997, with Carli Bortolanza, Caos Filmes made his most personal films and in 2001 he created N.A.V.E. (Associated Experimental Video Center) in Palmitos - together with Cesar Souza and Elio Copini.