- Born
- Birth nameRodrigo Souza Grota
- Rodrigo Grota is a brazilian film director and writer. He directed more than 20 films and documentaries for cinematic release and for television screenings, most of which he also wrote. He is author of two books: Notes for the east (2019) and Fantasmatika (2022). One of the founders of Kinoarte, since 2014 Grota runs the company Kinopus.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Kinopus
- Films are set in Londrina, Parana, the town where he lives, or Marilia, Sao Paulo, the town he was born and raised.
- Black and white pictures of nature.
- I wanted to make a film about jazz, about the way of life that jazz is: the travelling, the roaming life, the self-destruction, simultaneity, fragmentation. All of these elements should direct the film's approach, from the shooting method to the editing. Therefore the film is not realistic: it's filled with digressions, fragments, uncompleted emotions, intertwined stories (nothing really clear, a little dispersed, but independent elements that acquire certain unity in the final ensemble).
- What I do not know remains.
- Looking back, it seems to me that our films became less and less eloquent, more sober and practically mute... Satori is like a scream, a moan at its maximum degree, a black and white opera, and that's how it was supposed to be since it was the first 35mm film by Kinoarte. Booker is already a kind of broken film, digressive, almost a note out of tone - the film chases and overlays the characters. While Haruo is a "realistic" film, a homage to Japanese cinema, the only film in which we have a concrete character and an almost narrative approach. It may be the most mature of all the Trilogy's films, because our responsibility was bigger - Haruo is the greatest visual artist in Londrina and a much cherished man for all of his family and for everyone who knew him. But I think Haruo has a deeper connection to the Trilogy in the sense that all three films were made as if they were documentaries on what we DO NOT know about the characters - usually a story is constituted of what we do know. What interested us was the opposite - to invest in what we didn't know.
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