Ananas Connection — Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle — Grande galerie de l’évolution — Screening — Slash Paris

Past: Sunday, June 3, 2012 at 2 PM

Directed by Amos Gitaï, Ananas (1984, 76 min) starts with the label of a preserved pineapple tin on which one can read: “produced in the Philippines, canned in Honolulu, distributed in San Francisco”, and in the corner, “printed in Japan”.

A combination of historical discourse, testimonies and revealing images, Ananas addresses and untangles the various strands of the global spider web that makes up a multinational fruit company. Taking Ananas as a starting point, a number of specialists whose fields of study include rubber plants, bananas or wood have been invited to give a history of these well-travelled plants and to comment on the various issues of their industrial production.

Contributors

Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton (historian, Research Fellow at CNRS, CEMAf, Centre d’études des mondes africains), Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (historian), Gabriela Lamy (Head Gardener at the gardens of the Domaine de Marie-Antoinette), Françoise Vergès (political scientist) and Serge Volper (agronomist and archivist at the Cirad historical library).