The Endless Film
| The Endless Film | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Leandro Listorti |
| Screenplay by | Leandro Listorti |
| Produced by | Paula Zyngierman Leandro Listorti Gustavo Beck |
| Edited by | Felipe Guerrero |
Production company | MaravillaCine |
Release date |
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Running time | 53 minutes |
| Country | Argentina |
| Box office | $190[1] |
La Película Infinita (The Endless Film or The Infinite Film) is a 2018 Argentinian experimental documentary film directed by Leandro Listorti,[2] his first feature-length work.[3][4][5]
Summary
La Película Infinita is a film essay[6] featuring an assemblage of never completed films[7][8] 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.[9][5]
Films featured
The following films[10][11] 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
It was released in Argentina on August 2, 2018 where it grossed $190.[1]
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
- Film preservation
- Lost film
- Zama - a 2017 film directed by Lucrecia Martel
- La Memoria Infinita
References
- 1 2 The Endless Film at Box Office Mojo
- ↑ "La Película Infinita - Maravillacine". Retrieved 2024-01-31.
- ↑ "La película infinita (The Endless Film)". Labocine.
- ↑ Leandro Lisorti|Viennale
- 1 2 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
- ↑ "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.