The mother of filmmaker Glauber Rocha, Lúcia Rocha founded the Tempo Glauber foundation in 1983, two years after the artist’s death. The foundation aims to preserve and catalogue the director’s work, and foster study and reflection on film practices. When her son was exiled during the civilian-military dictatorship, Lúcia strived to conserve his work by concealing it and often moving it from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro, because her son feared it would be destroyed by the censors if it were found. Through the 1960s and 1980s she harbored countless artists, poets and intellectuals in her house, including Caetano Veloso and João Ubaldo Ribeiro. Initially based at the Museum of Image and Sound of Rio de Janeiro, the institution moved to its own quarters three years later, at a building of the INSS (Brazilian Social Security). From 1993 to 1995, the archive greatly reduced its activities due to lack of sponsorship, and only became fully established in the year 2000, when the building was finally ceded by the state government to Tempo Glauber, with Lúcia as its curator.