Between 1970 and 1980, she worked as a Cinema critic and wrote
essays for national and foreigner magazines and newspapers,
such as: Argumento, Ensaios de Opinião, Filme e Cultura,
Suplemento Cultural de O Estado de São Paulo, Cadernos
do 3° Mundo and Revista Autrement.
Since 1977, she has documented the life and history of the Black
communities in Brazil. To realize the Documentary ÔRÍ, she
worked along with important Brazilian Africanists and with Naná
Vasconcelos, a Brazilian Percussionist, on that time, established
in New York.
Her first film Ylê Xoroquê (1981), in 16mm, caused a great polemic
amongst the Black movements in Brazil.
ÔRÍ, (1989, 91 minutes, 35mm), is the result of 11 years of production
and filming in Brazil and Africa, along with researchers, historians
and Black communities in Brazil.
Raquel Gerber was a member of the Centro de Estudos de Sociologia
da Arte da USP (The Center of Studies on Sociology of Art of the
University of São Paulo) and of the Women in Film International
movement, established in Los Angeles.
