16mm Filmography
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Isle of flowers

Set in Brazil, Furtado's sardonic, unpredictable and ultimately damning polemic builds its argument with seemingly disparate strands: the unique pincer movements of the human thumb, a Japanese tomato plantation owner, and a housewife/perfume saleswoman who purchases tomatoes and pork at the local supermarket. These elements evocative of the human condition and the vagaries of commerce tragically intersect on the infamous Porto Alegre or isle of flowers where pigs eat first and the people scavenge what the animals reject.

Credits

Directed by
Jorge Furtado
Written by
Jorge Furtado, Cecília Meireles
Music
Geraldo Flach
Edited by
Gilberto José Pires de Assis Brasil

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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, description, catalog record
  2. Wikidata · Q27467 ↗ — country, genre, credits

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