Project Description
Joana Pimenta
Director, Film Study Center, FSC-Harvard Fellow 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20
Joana Pimenta is a filmmaker, Assistant Professor in Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University, and Director of the Film Study Center at Harvard. Her latest film, Dry Ground Burning, co-directed with Adirley Queirós, probes the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, and it was shot in Sol Nascente, in the periphery of Brasília, Brazil. Dry Ground Burning premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, screened at the New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, among many others, where it received more than 30 awards, followed by theatrical releases in the United States, France, Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Argentina, among other countries.
FSC Works
An Aviation Field
Joana Pimenta, 14 min. (2016)
An aviation field in an unknown suburb.
The lake underneath the city burns the streets. The mountains throw rock into the gardens. In the crater of a volcano in Fogo, a model Brazilian city is lifted and dissolves.
Two people find each other in this landscape, 50 years apart.
The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees
Joana Pimenta, 14 min. (2014)
With its indelible images and an air of mystery, Joana Pimenta’s The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees mines an archive of correspondence between the island of Madeira and the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique. Because Pimenta’s source material is supplemented by fictive memories, imagination comes to fill in the lacunae of a long-suppressed history. Part postcard, part landscape film, part auto-fiction, The Figures Carved is both a sensual and sensory experience. (Harvard Art Museum)
Related Posts
Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós Retrospective at FIDMarseille
Songs and Flames: The Collective Fabulations of Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta Retrospective at FIDMarseille, screening June 26-29
FSC Filmmakers make Film Comment Magazine’s “Best Films of 2023”
Congratulations to FSC filmmakers Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel, and Alain Gomis
“Dry Ground Burning” by Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós reviewed in the New York Times and Begins Theatrical Run
"Dry Ground Burning" by Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós was recently reviewed in the New York Times and begins its theatrical run at BAM.
Joana Pimenta named Interim Director of the Film Study Center
We are delighted to announce that, as of July 1, Joana Pimenta will be the Interim Director of the Film Study Center.