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La Película Infinita (The Endless Film or The Infinite Film) is a 2018 Argentinian experimental documentary film directed by Leandro Listorti,[1] his first feature-length work.[2] [3] [4]

Summary

La Película Infinita is a film essay[5] featuring an assemblage of never completed films[6] [7] from the 1950s onwards from archives of a Buenos Aires film museum (for which the director is also curator), presenting an alternate parallel history of film and tracing a national cinema that never was invoking the ghosts of the country's dictatorial past.[8] [4]

Films featured

The following films[9] [10] were featured in unfinished fragments:

Release

It was released in Argentina on August 2, 2018 where it grossed $190.[11]

Reception

A review compared this assemblage of films to the "Frankenstein's method".[12] Another review found the film was failed and "mechanical".[13] A more appreciative assessment can be found at Desistfilm: "It is likely that everything lost at some point can have a second life, from the words that were not said to the images that were not filmed, La Película Infinita is just a sample of that videolibrary of Babel that is hidden somewhere and where all the lost cinema is kept; and we need more Listortis and Bill Morrisons that know how to show them before our eyes."[14]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: La Película Infinita - Maravillacine . 2024-01-31 . en-US.
  2. Web site: La película infinita (The Endless Film). Labocine.
  3. https://www.viennale.at/en/guest/leandro-listorti Leandro Lisorti|Viennale
  4. https://www.ica.art/films/uk-premiere-we-still-have-to-close-our-eyes-the-endless-film-introduction ICA | UK PREMIERE We Still Have to Close Our Eyes + The Endless Film + introduction
  5. Web site: Screening and Discussion: The Endless Film (2018) and Parable of the Return (2016) . 2024-01-21 . New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
  6. https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/herbaria Herbaria - Harvard Film Archive
  7. https://metrograph.com/take-care/ Take Care - Journal - Metrograph
  8. Web site: La película infinita . 2024-01-22 . IFFR.
  9. Web site: March 14, 2019 . La Película Infinita (The Endless Film) . 2024-01-22 . maysles documentary center.
  10. https://www.cinematropical.com/cinema-tropical/daily-recommendation-the-endless-film Daily Recommendation: THE ENDLESS FILM — Cinema Tropical
  11. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt7780808/credits/?ref_=bo_tt_tab Box Office Mojo
  12. Web site: 2018-05-05 . Crítica de "La película infinita" de Leandro Listorti (2018) – Cinefilo Serial . 2024-01-31 . es.
  13. Web site: La película infinita (Leandro Listorti, 2018) Cine Documental . 2024-01-31 . es.
  14. Web site: ROTTERDAM 2018: LA PELÍCULA INFINITA DE LEANDRO LISTORTI – desistfilm . 2024-01-31 . en-US.