Gilles Diniz
Directing
Biography
Gilles Diniz is a journalist at the Federal University of Cariri (UFCA). He is the author of the book Nas Águas do Tempo (2021) and the illustrated books Nia in the Killer Fleas (2021), The Little Caterpillar (2021) and Nia's Little Book of the Dead (2021). He composed the soundtracks for the films As pedras que falam (2022), Do Outro Lado da Linha (2023), Tudo Tem Seu Tempo (2023) and the podcast Kisses for Johnathann (2023). Since 2021, he has collaborated with Intermitências – Brazilian journal of Proustian studies, in which he publishes illustrations and the translation of an essay by Marcel Proust unpublished in Brazil. In 2018, he wrote and produced the film As pedras que falam (2022), directed by Aodren Buart. He directed the music video 'Clima Ameno', by Gabi Andrade and co-directed the documentary Do Outro Lado da Linha (2023). Since 2018 he has been a member of the Sétima de Cinema Study Group, with which he has produced important events such as the Varilux French Cinema Festival (Cariri edition, 2019), Mostra 21 (2020), Claro-Escuro – Encontro Bimestral by Audiovisual (2022) and mounted the exhibition Sétima em Revista (2022). He is an editor for the magazine Corte Seco (UFCA).
Known For
Letter film made by a grandson to his grandmother showing he is taking care of her plants.
And my plants?
Fátima, Lô and Helena are three friends that love to dance forró. They live in the Alto da Penha, in Crato. As Fátima and Helena work hard taking care of the cemetery flowers, Lô recall the ladies for a forró party in the neighborhood.
They can dance
The poetic dance of the animals in their daily labour. Ants, bees, chickens, lizards, butterflies, spiders, grasshoppers and a turtle set an idillic sequence of wild life as musical movements.
DAY
John is a young Journalism student, he worked for years in a telemarketing service untill the burnout crisis. Now he wants to suit the enterprise for harassment at work, back and mental problems.
The other side of the line
Considerations about the room and the world.
Sanctuary
Videoclip for the song 'Clima Ameno', by Gabi Andrade
Mild Weather
In the curious city of Crato, near the Chapada do Araripe, a young geologist goes up the river to unravel the mysteries behind the stories told by his grandmother. Then begins a journey in search of answers from which the adventurer will not return the same.
The stones that speak
Video-poem of the city as a place of memory in which four friends remember an afternoon full of simple and poetic moments. An affectionate walk through the center of Juazeiro do Norte accompanied by the poetry of Ana Martins Marques
Memory
Scenes from real life come together as a piece of cinematographic sonata. We see people in moments of joy, pray, contemplation and work. An reunion of life fragments to compose a film about human feelings and actions.