AN AVIATION FIELD
A film by Joana Pimenta
2016, 14 minutes
2016, 14 minutes
No. 076
Documentary
Documentary
Description
The newest work to emerge from Harvard’s groundbreaking Sensory Ethnography Lab – the collective behind documentaries like Leviathan, Sweetgrass and Manakamana – Joana Pimenta’s An Aviation Field is a mesmerizing short film, a ghost story about buried cities, lost civilizations and Western colonialism.
"Using warm, darkly saturated 16mm images shot on the volcanic island of Fogo, Cape Verde, and in modernist Brasilia, and sounds that range between trebly crackle and aquatic gurgle, Pimenta constructs a surreal and mythical landscape from the remnants of Portuguese colonialism." - New York Film Festival
"Using warm, darkly saturated 16mm images shot on the volcanic island of Fogo, Cape Verde, and in modernist Brasilia, and sounds that range between trebly crackle and aquatic gurgle, Pimenta constructs a surreal and mythical landscape from the remnants of Portuguese colonialism." - New York Film Festival
Festivals
Official Selection, New York Film Festival
Official Selection, Toronto Film Festival
Official Selection, Locarno Film Festival
Official Selection, International Festival of New Latin American Cinema
Official Selection, Mar del Plata International Film Festival
Official Selection, Toronto Film Festival
Official Selection, Locarno Film Festival
Official Selection, International Festival of New Latin American Cinema
Official Selection, Mar del Plata International Film Festival
