Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees, The

  • Portugal As figuras gravadas na faca com a seiva das bananeiras
Short / Documentary
Portugal / USA, 2014, 17 min

Directed by:

Joana Pimenta

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In a meditative flow of images, interspersed with flashes and vibrations of light, old postcards give life to a story with a sense of mystery straddling fictional colonial memory and science fiction. The invented memories are like cyphers that fill in the gaps in the correspondence between the Madeira islands and the former Portugues colony of Mozambique. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)

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