Isle of Flowers (1989)
- Original title
- Ilha das Flores
- Directed by
- Jorge Furtado
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Brazil
- Runtime
- 13 min
- Rating
- 8.2 of 10 from 228 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A short film follows a single tomato from the grower through the market and into a garbage dump. It ends up with a child who collects food from the trash, with voiceover and images showing the journey's economic and social meaning.
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What happens
Isle of Flowers (Portuguese: Ilha das Flores) is a 1989 Brazilian short film by Jorge Furtado. It tracks the path of a tomato from grower to the child who collects it as food from a dump with the help of voiceover and a collection of illustrative images. The director stated the film was inspired by the works of Kurt Vonnegut and Alain Resnais, among others. In 1995, Isle of Flowers was chosen by the European critics as one of the 100 most important short films of the century. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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