ESTADOS GENERALES

A few seeds preserved in Madrid’s Botanical Gardens are sent back to the south coast of Peru, where they were collected centuries ago. Ιn his wildly inventive debut film, Mauricio Freyre intertwines a sensual imaginary journey home with conversations with archive experts from the metropolis, building a counternarrative to colonial despoilment. Using evoking 16mm film in tightly framed shots, accompanied by a carefully crafted, minimalist sound design, the film attempts to explore the spectral capacity of the archive; at the same time, it crafts a different, visceral kind of knowledge, as a means to confront the existing legacies of the colonial system – as different polymorphous regimes of power extend and feed each other: colonialism, European modernity, anthropocentrism, and Western technoscience. An immersive trip in the gaps between archival taxonomies, the deepest cracks where all sorts of fruits manage to grow.