The Figures Carved into the Knife By the Sap of the Banana Trees

2014 • Directed by

Joana Pimenta

Science Fiction, Documentary

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.