“A film-poem of an ecology of signs that speaks of colonial history repeating itself. Subalterns become masters, antiques become reproducible dinner sets, exotic birds become luxury currency, exploration becomes extreme-sport-tourism, monuments become geodata. A spherical voyage eastwards and westwards marking cycles of expansion in a struggle to find one’s place, one’s sitting around a table.” (Ana Vaz)
Filming in Lisbon, Vaz proposes a sort of reverse ethnography: “I wanted to imagine the opposing trip: from the Americas into the coast of Europe, from Brazil into the port of our historic colonial administrative centre, Lisbon — an eating-up of our European roots, a ritual of devoration.” ‘Who eats who’ and ‘who feeds who’ are two of the underlying questions here.
Portuguese spoken, English subtitles
