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

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

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

2014

0h 17m

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Science Fiction

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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.

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