The newest work to emerge from Harvard’s groundbreaking Sensory Ethnography Lab – the collective behind documentaries like Leviathan, Sweetgrass and Manakamana – Joana Pimenta’s mesmerizing short film is a ghost story about buried cities, lost civilizations and Western colonialism.
Observing a volcanic crater opens up a narrative filled with allusions and intimations that create an imaginary city along the lines of the metropolis of Brasilia inside the Cape Verdean volcano Pico de Fogo. A projection of an urban plan creates a world of possible stories, while shots of the urban model take us on a walk along the geometry of the city where even the cloud cover has been calculated.
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