Some of the seeds brought to Spain during colonial expeditions are still held in archives, catalogued simply as ‘Unnamed’. Through images of the archive and conversations with archivists, director Mauricio Freyre imagines their return home – to the southern coast of Peru, from which they were taken in the nineteenth century. Yet this homecoming is neither romantic nor hopeful: using plants as a metaphor, Freyre exposes the neocolonial structures still at work in South America.
General states
Estados Generales Director Mauricio Freyre
1 hr. 24 min. · Peru, Spain, 2025 · Documentary · Spanish, English · Subtitles: Lithuanian, English · Pegi 13
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 24 min.
- Country, year
- Peru, Spain, 2025
- Genre
- Documentary
- Language
- Spanish, English
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- Pegi 13
Credits
- Director
- Mauricio Freyre
- Screenplay
- Mauricio Freyre, Violeta Janeiro
- Producers
- Mauricio Freyre, Nicolás Carrasco, Tasio
- Cinematography
- Marta Simões
- Music
- Jose Tena Vázquez, Tasio
- More information
- www.imdb.com
- MUBI
- View on MUBI
Director
Mauricio Freyre
Mauricio Freyre is a researcher, audiovisual artist and filmmaker with a background in architecture. In General States, he examines the role of botany and its systems within colonial science, exploring the political and subversive potential of plant life in relation to Western systems of knowledge. The project was supported by Spain’s Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA), Peru’s DAFO, FIDLab 2021 in Marseille and Residencias Matadero in Madrid. His project Interspecies Architecture was presented in May 2021 as part of the Taiwan Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.
