Actor Joana Pimenta

Joana Pimenta

2021
JOANA PIMENTA is a filmmaker from Lisbon, Portugal, currently living and working between the United States and Brazil. Her short film The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees received the Competition Award at Indielisboa ’14, where it premiered, the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and has been screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, Jihlava, Mar del Plata, Ambulante, Edinburgh, Videoex, Taipei, among other venues. Her video installation work has been recently presented at the Festival Temps d'Images, the Fundacion Botin, Galeria da Boavista, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, and The Pipe Factory, among others. She works and teaches in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University and in the BFA program in Film at Rutgers University, and is a fellow at the Film Study Center and the Sensory Ethnography Lab.
Фильмы

Um Campo de Aviação

Joana Pimenta

Moving and mysterious, Joana Pimenta’s An Aviation Field juxtaposes the natural and the manmade as it links the great utopian modernist project of Brasilia to the volcanic crater in Fogo, Cape Verde, and offers speculative futures for a troubling past.

An Aviation Field

6.6 ⚠️ 2016 Um Campo de Aviação
США

As Figuras Gravadas Na Faca Com a Seiva Das Bananeiras

Joana Pimenta

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.

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

6.6 ⚠️ 2014 As Figuras Gravadas Na Faca Com a Seiva Das Bananeiras
США, документальный

Somniloquies

Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel

Portia Alexandria-Ross, Terry Bernard

Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep.

Somniloquies

6.3 ⚠️ 2017 Somniloquies
Франция, документальный