Herbaria
Tuesday September 10 at 6:30pm
Presented by the Vulnerable Media Lab at the Department of Film and Media, Queen’s University.
Admission is free and everyone is welcome to attend. Seating is “first come, first served” at the door. The screening will be presented in the 68-seat Roxy Auditorium with laser projection.
Special screening of the film Herbaria next week at the Screening Room, organized by the Vulnerable Media Lab. Herbaria is a poetic documentary that parallels the rigorous and vital practices of botanical preservation and film preservation, blending 16mm and archival footage. The director, Leandro Listorti, is an Argentinian archivist, filmmaker, and curator.
Our work in the VML engages with film archives, restoration, research and education; areas touched on by this documentary. We wanted to put together a screening that opened up some of the questions surrounding archives and preservation to a larger audience.
This screening is free and open to all!
Tuesday September 10th - The Screening Room (120 Princess Street) - 6.30PM
Herbaria is a poetic documentary that parallels the rigorous and vital practices of botanical preservation and film preservation (the director, Leandro Listorti, is himself an archivist in addition to being a filmmaker and curator). As delicate in its touch as the materials that make up its subject, Herbaria is a reflection on ephemerality and our relationship to nature, time, and memory. Situating the viewer somewhere between past, present, and future, this elegant documentary blends 16mm and archival footage, giving us a tactile and transcendent opportunity to consider what it means to archive. In so doing, Herbaria points to the potential of stepping out of time and channeling our attention towards new possibilities of engagement and understanding with the materials at our fingertips.