The following thesis is a study on the many ways in which Torquato Neto, a key figure in Brazil s cultural movements during the 1960s and 1970s, approached the cinematographic field. The thesis is centered around the analysis of the 1972 short film O Terror da Vermelha, the only film which Torquato Neto directed during his life. However, O Terror da Vermelha was never finished by Torquato, who committed suicide a few months after the filming was finished, leaving only the filmed footage and a vague script in the form of a poem. Therefore, this thesis was built as an exercise on how to approach such singular object. To do so, our starting point was to conceive O Terror da Vermelha as an open film, an object that inhabits the space between the fantasy of a desired film and a finished product, which configures an approach to film which encompasses not only the created images, but also all of Torquato written production on cinema and on his desire to do films.