Files for Films
5 - 8 .3. 2024
Mauricio Freye, Paloma Polo, Adrian Schindler, Candela Sotos


1. Works by Mauricio Freyre





Semilla fantasma
Ghost  seed

Frutos sin nombre
Unnamed Fruits

Diapositivas de etnobotanico
Ethnobotanical slides

Fotogramas Estados generales
Film stills Estados generales

S59
S59

Untitled
Sin titulo

Semilla fantasma
Ghost  seed

In the second basement of the herbarium of the Botanical Garden of Madrid is located the S59 repository, a storage room of the historical herbarium that gathers botanical material that for various reasons is not possible to classify. This material from the former colonies was mostly collected during botanical expeditions between the 18th and 19th centuries. This accumulation of plant species gathered as discards, where all of them for multiple reasons have not been catalogued, and where neither their origin nor their nature has been studied, constitute a blind spot in the official archive. "Semilla fantasma" studies the relationship between modernity and coloniality by relating some of these excluded fragments, as well as different absences, gaps and distortions in the historiography of the collection itself. Estados generales" is a single-channel film that portrays the return journey of a packet of seeds belonging to the colonial period in Peru, from the archives of the Botanical Garden of Madrid to the place where they were collected on the southern coast of Peru.  

Biography

Mauricio Freyre is a researcher, audiovisual artist, and filmmaker with a background in architecture. In his work, he focuses on structures and systems of ideas at the margins of the constructed and projected, emphasizing blind spots, dark areas, accidents, distortions and forms of consciousness that are excluded. A current project he is engaged in is 'Estados Generales', which traces the role of botany and its systems within colonial sciences, exploring the political and subversive dimension of the plant world in relation to a western epistemology. It has received support from ICAA, Instituto de Cinematografía y Artes Audiovisuales in Spain, DAFO in Peru, FidLAB 2021 in Marseille and Residencias Matadero in Madrid. His project ‘Interspecies Architecture’ has been premiered in May 2021 at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the Taiwan Pavilion.
Recently he has obtained the National Prize for Experimental Films awarded by the Ministry of Culture in Peru. His films and installations have been included in different programs and exhibitions including 17th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Centro Centro, Madrid, Collectif Jeune Cinéma in Paris, Bisagra in Lima, Imagine Science Films in New York, Lima independiente, Festival Internacional de Cine Valdivia, Film Fest Gent, Strangloscope in Florianopolis, Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, l’Alternativa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, TENT in Rotterdam, Nederlands Film Festival in Utrecht and Fundación Telefonica in Lima.

More info: mauriciofreyre.com

ART DIRECTION

Mauricio Freyre

Born in Lima and currently based in Madrid, I am a film and art director with a background in architecture, arts, and film. Over the years, I have collaborated with renowned artists and prestigious clients including Amaia, Artur Puga, Centro de Artes Conde Duque, Samsung, and Netflix. My work has been showcased at prominent festivals and museums such as the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema de Pesaro, FIC Valdivia, Centro Centro, Collectif Jeune Cinéma Paris, and Fundación Telefónica in Lima, among others.

ESTADOS GENERALES, Fiction, 84min, 16mm, 2025, On production

INTERSPECIES ARCHITECTURE, Fiction, 14min, 2022

AMAIA “NADIE PODRÍA HACERLO”, Videoclip, 3min, 2023

S59, Fiction, 18min, 2022

SET OUT 1, Fiction, 2 min, 2019

A IS CID, Fiction, 6 min, 2021

Contact
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