Estudio RIEN 
ESTADOS GENERALES, Perú, Spain | Fiction | 76 min | S16mm | DCP | Color | 5.1 | 2025   Single channel film, 16mm transferred to digital video, 84 min






Synopsis




The storage room labeled 'S59' in the Botanical Garden of Madrid's herbarium houses botanical material from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, primarily from former colonies, that cannot be cataloged in the official historical archive and constitutes a blind spot in the herbarium.

ESTADOS GENERALES, Perú, Spain | Fiction | 76 min | S16mm | DCP | Color | 5.1 | 2025   Single channel film, 16mm transferred to digital video, 84 min






Idea

Conceived as a counter-narrative that explores the spectral capacity of the archive, 'ESTADOS GENERALES' re-imagines the return voyage of a parcel of seeds from this deposit back to the place where they were picked on the southern coast of Perú.

Since the colonial system, different polymorphous regimes of power extend and feed each other: colonialism, European modernity, anthropocentrism and Western technoscience. The film is conceived as a counter-narrative that explores the spectral capacity of the archive, offering a critical perspective to examine the continuity of contemporary neocolonial structures.
ESTADOS GENERALES, Perú, Spain | Fiction | 76 min | S16mm | DCP | Color | 5.1 | 2025   Single channel film, 16mm transferred to digital video, 84 min







The importance of the seed resembles the 'figure of the spectrum' that Mark Fisher outlines in “Ghosts of My Life”, 'which cannot be fully present: it is not a being in itself but indicates a relationship with what is no longer more or with what is not yet ... where psychoanalysis is also a science of ghosts, a study of how certain events that reverberate in the psyche are transformed into apparitions'.