from Multimedia Library Collection:
Environmental Film Profiles (videos)
Furtado, Jorge. Ilha das Flores [Isle of Flowers]. Porto Alegre: Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre, 1989. 35 mm, 12 min. https://youtu.be/amg08t0TQOY.
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash… Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.(Source: Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre)
© 1989 Casa de Cinema de Porto Algere. Film used with permission.
Further readings:
- Caplan, Pat. Food, Health and Identity. London: Routledge, 1997.
- Iles, Alastair. "Learning in Sustainable Agriculture: Food Miles and Missing Objects." Environmental Values 14, no. 2 (2005): 163–83. doi:10.3197/0963271054084894.
- Pimbert, Michel, Rachel Shindelar, and Hanna Schösler, eds. "Think Global, Eat Local: Exploring Foodways." Special issue, RCC Perspectives 1 (2015).
