Estados generales
Single channel, 16mm transfered to digital video, 84 min
Synopsis
In the second basement of the herbarium of the Botanical Garden of Madrid is located the storage S59,
a warehouse from the historical herbarium that gathers botanical material
mostly coming from the eighteenth and nineteenth century from the former colonies,
that for several causes cannot be cataloged.
Assembled as discards, this vegetal matter constitutes a blind spot within the offificial archive.
This film re-imagines the return voyage of a parcel of seeds from this deposit back to the place
where they were picked in the southern coast of Peru.
Since the colonial system, different polymorphous regimes of power extend and feed each other:
colonialism, European modernity, anthropocentrism and Western technoscience.
The film is conceived as a counter- narrative that explores the spectral capacity of the archive,
offering a critical perspective to examine the continuity of contemporary neocolonial structures.
Single channel, 16mm transfered to digital video, 84 min
Synopsis
In the second basement of the herbarium of the Botanical Garden of Madrid is located the storage S59,
a warehouse from the historical herbarium that gathers botanical material
mostly coming from the eighteenth and nineteenth century from the former colonies,
that for several causes cannot be cataloged.
Assembled as discards, this vegetal matter constitutes a blind spot within the offificial archive.
This film re-imagines the return voyage of a parcel of seeds from this deposit back to the place
where they were picked in the southern coast of Peru.
Since the colonial system, different polymorphous regimes of power extend and feed each other:
colonialism, European modernity, anthropocentrism and Western technoscience.
The film is conceived as a counter- narrative that explores the spectral capacity of the archive,
offering a critical perspective to examine the continuity of contemporary neocolonial structures.
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