Unravelling Archive examines what archives preserve and, at the same time, what is lost, scattered, or deliberately erased. The film understands archives as unstable spaces, traversed by decisions, affections, and forms of control, where memory is constructed both by accumulation and by absence.
Documentary materials intersect with personal stories and everyday gestures, shifting the idea of the archive as a repository toward a metabolic archive that overflows and transforms. The film approaches the archive of artist Claudia del Río in order to declassify it, to allow its fragments to establish unexpected relationships.
Unravelling Archive proposes a form of fragmentary, superimposed biography and autobiography, where preserving also implies hiding, dividing, and letting grow. Rather than securing a legacy, the archive is a place of metamorphosis
Director Biography -Veronica Maria Rossi
Verónica Rossi’s work lies between archiving and curating. A historian and archivist, she has organized literary and artistic collections and was a curator at Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires for the last 10 years. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree on Biography and Memoir at the Graduate Center (CUNY), where she explores experimental forms of storytelling based on documentary materials. Archivo deshilachado is her first film essay.
