Joana Pimenta

História

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.

Filmes

Mato seco em chamas
Mato seco em chamas
Writer
In the Sol Nascente favela on the edge of Brasília, a gang of women hijacks a pipeline to sell gasoline to the community.
Mato seco em chamas
Mato seco em chamas
Director
In the Sol Nascente favela on the edge of Brasília, a gang of women hijacks a pipeline to sell gasoline to the community.
Dreaming In The Dark
Dreaming In The Dark
Director
For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform relationships between the body and the camera to propose works that will engage with both perception and embodiment. Could cinema be an art of embodiment? By what rituals and actions could vision become tactile?
Era Uma Vez Brasília
Era Uma Vez Brasília
Director of Photography
Em 1959, o agente intergaláctico WA4 é preso por fazer um loteamento ilegal e é lançado no espaço. Recebe uma missão: vir para a Terra e matar o presidente da República, Juscelino Kubitschek, no dia da inauguração de Brasília. Sua nave perde-se no tempo e aterrissa em 2016 em Ceilândia. Essa é a versão contada por Marquim do Tropa, ator e abduzido. Só Andreia, a rainha do pós-guerra, poderá ajudá-los a montar o exército para matar os monstros que habitam hoje o Congresso Nacional. Este é um documentário gravado no ano 0 P.G. (Pós Golpe), no Distrito Federal e região.
Um Campo de Aviação
Um Campo de Aviação
Editor
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.
Um Campo de Aviação
Um Campo de Aviação
Cinematography
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.
Um Campo de Aviação
Um Campo de Aviação
Writer
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.
Um Campo de Aviação
Um Campo de Aviação
Director
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.
As Figuras Gravadas Na Faca Com a Seiva Das Bananeiras
As Figuras Gravadas Na Faca Com a Seiva Das Bananeiras
Director
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.