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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.

Joana Pimenta (b. 1986, Lisbon) works in film and video installation. Her work has been recently presented at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Fundacion Botin, Galeria da Boavista, R4, and The Pipe Factory. Her short film "The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees" received the Pixelbunker Award for Best Short Film in the National Competition at Indielisboa `14, where it premiered, and has been selected for the Toronto International Film Festival (Wavelenghts)and the New York Film Festival (Projections, former Views of the Avant-Garde). She is a Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, a fellow at the Film Study Center, and is pursuing her MFA in Film/Video at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College. She lives and works in Lisbon and Brooklyn, NY.