Joana Pimenta
An image from Once There Was Brasília, one of the productions that also features Joana Pimenta.

Joana Pimenta

JOANA PIMENTA is a filmmaker from Lisbon, Portugal, currently living and working between the United States and Brazil. Her short film The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees received the Competition Award at Indielisboa ’14, where it premiered, the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and has been screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, Jihlava, Mar del Plata, Ambulante, Edinburgh, Videoex, Taipei, among other venues. Her video installation work has been recently presented at the Festival Temps d'Images, the Fundacion Botin, Galeria da Boavista, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, and The Pipe Factory, among others. She works and teaches in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University and in the BFA program in Film at Rutgers University, and is a fellow at the Film Study Center and the Sensory Ethnography Lab.

Once There Was Brasília

Once There Was Brasília

2017

An Aviation Field

An Aviation Field

2016

Dry Ground Burning

Dry Ground Burning

2023

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

2014

Dreaming In The Dark

Dreaming In The Dark

2018

A Quebra do Cego

2024