Variations on How to Farm a City

Variations on How to Farm a City

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0h29min
2024Documentary

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In an urban landscape besieged by construction, the protagonist cultivates gardens, battling modern encroachment with timeless farming rituals.

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Sprout. In the vacant lots against the hammering of buildings always under construction, between walls of granite, cement and sheet metal with rust, moss and cats; on the hillside between the train and the river, next to the traffic on the highway, facing the subway, vegetable gardens sprout. In this city, the choreography of ancient gestures of cultivating the land is repeated day after day, without fail. Sowing, digging, harvesting, watering, eating, talking, resting, returning the next day and starting again until they ripen. The longest day of the year brings S. João and nobody goes to bed, but when the sun rises, the discreet gestures of resistance will restart.