Isle of flowers

Duration: 15

Year Published: 1990

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: 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.

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