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La película infinita, the new film by Argentine filmmaker and curator of the film museum in Buenos Aires, Leandro Listorti, is an essay film about a parallel history of cinema, based on remains of Argentine films that were never completed. Edited by renowned filmmaker Felipe Guerrero (whose Oscuro animal premiered in IFFR`s Tiger Competition two years ago), it is a film created from fragments of other people`s films that somehow never really existed. As such, it is a cinematic Frankenstein, coming to life in front of our very own eyes. In a country where the remains are of fundamental importance in understanding the past, La película infinita offers a window to forgotten memories, and invites the viewer to evaluate its own culture and identity. The stories and the images, once considered unsuccessful, have now taken on a new meaning. Inert images and sounds never heard are finally opened up for fresh discovery.

Leandro Listorti was born in 1976 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After graduating from Filmmaking School he attended workshops with filmmakers such as Patricio Guzman, Martín Rejtman, Pablo Reyero and Harun Farocki and shot a series of short films in Super 8 dealing with the ideas of travel and memory. In 2010 he finished his first film DEATH YOUTH, which screened in numerous festivals. He writes about film, teaches and since 2005 he is Film Programmer at Bafici Film Festival. He also worked as Assistant Director in several films. In 2012 he participated in Archivo Expandido (Expanded Archive) an expanded cinema experience screened in festivals such as Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels) and S8 Mostra de Cine Periférico (Spain). He is one of the founders of A.R.C.A. (Regional Archive for Amateur Cinema), and one of the twenty five directors of INTERVENED EVENTS, produced by the Film Museum of Buenos Aires, Pablo Ducrós Hicken.