THE FIGURES CARVED INTO THE KNIFE BY THE SAP OF THE BANANA TREES
THE FIGURES CARVED INTO THE KNIFE BY THE SAP OF THE BANANA TREES
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(AS FIGURAS GRAVADAS NA FACA COM A SEIVA DAS BANANEIRAS)
Portugal, USA, 2014 HD video and 16mm film, 16' The rapid turning of a light draws a circle. In the space bound by its line unravels an archive of postcards sent between the island of Madeira and the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique. The figures carved into the knife by the sap of the banana trees circulates between a fictional colonial memory, and science-fiction.
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Indielisboa International FIlm Festival, National and International Competition- Pixel Bunker Indielisboa Jury Award Ann Arbor Film Festival, International Competition- Tom Berman Award for Most Promising FilmmakerNew York Film Festival - Projections - Lincoln Center for the Performing ArtsToronto International Film Festival - Pimenta / de Oliveira / Abrantes - WavelengthsFestival Internacional de Cine Mar del Plata Argentina, ArgentinaHarvard Art MuseumsNational Gallery of Art, Washington DCEdinburgh International Film Festival - International CompetitionDoc’s Kingdom, International Seminar on Documentary Cinema, PortugalCinemateca PortuguesaAmbulante Documentary Film Festival, MexicoFilmmaker Festival, ItalyJihlava International Documentary Film FestivalVideoex, International Experimental Film and Video Festival, ZurichFilmmaker Festival, ItalyFestival Imago - Courts Métrages Ibéro-Americains, FranceNational Art Museum, North KoreaTaipei Film Festival, TaiwanInternational Intangible Heritage Film Festival, KoreaAlternative Film/Video Festival, SerbiaSyros International Film Festival, International Competition, GreeceCachoeiradoc, Spatial Perspectives and Sensory Immersions, Brazil
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