Jorge Furtado

(Porto Alegre, 1959)

Filmmaker and founder of the Porto Alegre Film House, his most recognized short film is Ilha das Flores (1989), which received numerous national and international awards, including Best Short Film at the Berlin Festival. The documentary questions the power of taxonomies to account for what is real, a reality subject to a dominant discursivity, capitalism. It addresses the place of misery in the chain of political relations and how it is made invisible in a parodic way to challenge the system.

He participates in Medialab Madrid with the short film La isla de las flores (1989), a mockumentary that follows the itinerary of a tomato from its cultivation to rot in a landfill populated by animals and women who collect waste. The Island of Flowers addresses the place of misery in the chain of political, economic and historical relationships that make up the world.