The Endless Film

La Película Infinita is a 2018 Argentinian experimental documentary film directed by Leandro Listorti, his first feature-length work.

Summary

La Película Infinita is a film essay featuring an assemblage of never completed films from the 1950s onwards from archives of a Buenos Aires film museum, presenting an alternate parallel history of film and tracing a national cinema that never was invoking the ghosts of the country's dictatorial past.

Films featured

The following films were featured in unfinished fragments:

Nicolás Sarquís’s failed 1984 adaptation of Zama
El eternauta
La neutrónica explotó en Burzaco
Sistema español
''El ocio''

Release

It was released in Argentina on August 2, 2018 where it grossed $190.

Reception

A review compared this assemblage of films to the "Frankenstein's method". Another review found the film was failed and "mechanical". A more appreciative assessment can be found at Desistfilm: "It is likely that everything lost at some point can have a second life, from the words that were not said to the images that were not filmed, La Película Infinita is just a sample of that videolibrary of Babel that is hidden somewhere and where all the lost cinema is kept; and we need more Listortis and Bill Morrisons that know how to show them before our eyes."