The Endless Film
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[edit]
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[edit]
The following films[9][10] were featured in unfinished fragments:
- Nicolás Sarquís’s failed 1984 adaptation of Zama (1984)
- El eternauta (Hugo Gil; 1968)
- La neutrónica explotó en Burzaco (Alejandro Agresti; 1984)
- Sistema español (Martín Rejtman; 1988)
- El ocio (Mariano Llinás and Agustín Mendilaharzu; 1999)
Release[edit]
It was released in Argentina on August 2, 2018 where it grossed $190.[11]
Reception[edit]
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[edit]
- Film preservation
- Lost film
- Zama - a 2017 film directed by Lucrecia Martel
- La Memoria Infinita
References[edit]
- ^ "La Película Infinita - Maravillacine". Retrieved 2024-01-31.
- ^ "La película infinita (The Endless Film)". Labocine.
- ^ Leandro Lisorti|Viennale
- ^ a b ICA | UK PREMIERE We Still Have to Close Our Eyes + The Endless Film + introduction
- ^ "Screening and Discussion: The Endless Film (2018) and Parable of the Return (2016)". New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
- ^ Herbaria - Harvard Film Archive
- ^ Take Care - Journal - Metrograph
- ^ "La película infinita". IFFR. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
- ^ "La Película Infinita (The Endless Film)". maysles documentary center. March 14, 2019. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
- ^ Daily Recommendation: THE ENDLESS FILM — Cinema Tropical
- ^ Box Office Mojo
- ^ "Crítica de "La película infinita" de Leandro Listorti (2018) – Cinefilo Serial" (in Spanish). 2018-05-05. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
- ^ "La película infinita (Leandro Listorti, 2018) | Cine Documental" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-01-31.
- ^ "ROTTERDAM 2018: LA PELÍCULA INFINITA DE LEANDRO LISTORTI – desistfilm". Retrieved 2024-01-31.