HERBARIA

Leandro Listorti • Argentina, Germany • 2022 • 83 min. • 16mm

Leandro Listorti
Argentina, Germany • 2022 • 83 min. • 16mm

SYNOPSIS

As an excursion to the work of botanical and film preservation, “Herbaria” explores in its invisible processes the artistic and political derivations that connect them.
Sustained in a narration where times and spaces seem to merge, the records invite us to the fascinating universe of preserving the beauty and memory of a world that insists on disappearing.

TRAILER

AWARDS

Special Jury Award • Burning Lights Competition
Visions du Réel International Documentary Film Festival Nyon. Switzerland (2022)
First Special Jury Mention
Pesaro International Festival of New Cinema. Italy (2022)
Pełna Sala Silver Room Award for the Best Film at the “Lost Lost Lost” Section
New Horizons International Film Festival. Poland (2022)
Special Mention | Ibero-American Competition
Lima Alterna International Film Festival. Peru (2022)
“Luis Ospina” Award for Best Director
FICCali International Film Festival. Colombia (2022)
“José Martínez Suarez” Award for Best Director & Special Mention to Roberta Ainstein by ASA in the Category Best Sound in Argentinian Features Films
Mar del Plata International Film Festival. Argentina (2022)
Best Documentary Film
Raíces Film Festival. Argentina (2023)
Best Documentary Film & Best Editing Award to Leandro Listorti
Premios Cóndor de Plata. Argentina (2023)

FESTIVALS & ALTERNATIVE SCREENINGS

Jeonju International Film Festival. South Korea (2022)
DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival. Kosovo (2022)
Kerala International Documentary and Short Film Festival. India (2022)
Casa Argentina in Rome • Curated by PerSo Perugia Social Film Festival. Italy (2022)
Camden International Film Festival. United States (2022)
Harvard Film Archive. United States (2022)
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival. Romania (2022)
Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival. Mexico (2022)
MajorDocs Creative Documentary Film Festival. Spain (2022)
BFI London Film Festival. UK (2022)
Viennale International Film Festival Vienna. Austria (2022)
MIDBO Muestra Internacional de Cine Documental de Bogotá. Colombia (2022)
Festival Film Dokumenter. Indonesia (2022)
Kasseler Dokfest. Germany (2022)
Frontera Sur International Non-Fiction Film Festival. Chile (2022)
RIDM Montreal International Documentary Festival Festival. Canada (2022)
Cámara Lúcida Encuentros Cinematográficos. Ecuador (2022)
La Casa Encendida | Ciclo Cine Contemporáneo: Taxonomías. Spain (2022)
Korean Film Archive. South Korea (2022)
Cineclubcito Boliviano. Bolivia (2023)
Kino studyjne Światowid, Katowice. Poland (2023)
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid. Spain (2023)
Casa de la Primera Imprenta de América | “Florilegia: Misterios abominables” • Curated by Mayra Rojo. Mexico (2023)
First Look Festival | MoMI Museum of Moving Image. United States (2023)
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital • Curated by the National Gallery of Art. United States (2023)
Metrograph Theater NYC. United States (2023)
New York University. United States (2023)
Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse. France (2023)
İKSV Istanbul International Film Festival. Turkey (2023)
International Film Festival of Uruguay. Uruguay (2023)
AFO Olomouc International Festival of Science Documentary Films. Czech Republic (2023)
Festival ECRÃ. Brazil (2023)
Costa Rica International Film Festival. Costa Rica (2023)
Le Chien qui Aboie • Diffusion du Cinéma d’Amérique Latine. France (2023)
Muestra de Cine y Sostenibilidad | Jardín Botánico Atlántico de Gijón. Spain (2023)
EQZE | Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola. Spain (2023)
Filmoteca de Galicia. Spain (2023)
Anagram Project. Belgium (2023)
Docu Film León Muestra Internacional de Documental. Mexico (2023)
Union Cinema | Milwaukee. United States (2023)
Archivio Aperto. Italy (2023)
MAMUT Festival de Memoria Audiovisual. Colombia (2023)
Bienal de Artes Mediales • Cineteca Nacional. Chile (2023)
Imagine Science Film Festival. United States (2023)
CORRIENTE Encuentro latinoamericano de cine de no ficción. Peru (2023)
16mm Film Festival Harkat. India (2023)
Festival de Cine Contemporáneo de Asunción. Paraguay (2024)
MUSE Science Museum • “Postnatural Gardening” by the Anthropocene Programme. Italy (2024)
IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute. United States (2024)
Ciclo de Cine Latinoamericano Contemporáneo, UC. Chile (2024)
Feria Naturalium. Guatemala (2024)
Frame[o]ut Festival | MuseumsQuartier, Vienna. Austria (2024)
The Screening Room Movie Theatre, Kingston | Presented by the Vulnerable Media Lab. Canada (2024)
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. France (2024)
CineCiutat, Palma de Mallorca. Spain (2024)

PRESS

"Listorti recognizes the pure aesthetic value in witnessing materials in their truest form, and his movie is full of the most fabulous textures and tones. (...) An excellent, intellectually provocative movie."

Screen on Screen • by Paddy Mulholland

"Herbaria assumes the Borgesian form of a labyrinth that unravels in space and time. Gradually the film becomes more and more a visual poem, slips into the fantastic documentary, takes on a metaphysical form."

FATA MORGANA • by Bruno Roberti • Italian Only

"Leandro Listorti's tactile essay documentary convincingly connects the preservation of plants with film archivism."

CINEUROPA • by Vladan Petković

CREW

DIRECTOR & SCREENWRITER
Leandro Listorti

PRODUCERS
Paula Zyngierman
Leandro Listorti

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Kristina Konrad

LINE PRODUCER
Daniela Martínez Nannini

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Fidel González Armatta

SOUND DESIGNER
Roberta Ainstein

EDITOR
Leando Listorti

VFX
Nico Agarzúa

POST-PRODUCTION
ZEBRA FILMS

GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Marcelo Granero

FESTIVALS & WORLD SALES
María Vera (KINO REBELDE)

Produced by
MaravillaCine
Associate Producer Welt|film