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Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari (Italy, 208’) is a monumental work divided into three anti-narrative acts: Bestiaries, exploring cinema’s obsession with animals through found footage; Herbaria, observing the Botanical Garden of Padua; and Lapidaries, reflecting on stone as memory through industrial and poetic registers. Together, the trilogy refuses traditional storytelling, instead offering an encyclopaedic meditation on how humans perceive, classify, and coexist with the non-human. By renouncing plot, the directors allow nature’s infinite references — movements, growths, transformations — to unfold in their own rhythms. The result is a demanding yet rewarding cinematic experience: an immersive encyclopaedia that honours the “alien” presences of animals, plants, and stones, reminding us that they constitute the essential fabric of existence.
Event Duration: 6 pm-9:35 pm
Date: 6/11/2025
Location: The Cinema Museum, The Master’s House, 2 Dugard Way (off Renfrew Road), London SE11 4TH
Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari (Italy, 208’) is a monumental work divided into three anti-narrative acts: Bestiaries, exploring cinema’s obsession with animals through found footage; Herbaria, observing the Botanical Garden of Padua; and Lapidaries, reflecting on stone as memory through industrial and poetic registers. Together, the trilogy refuses traditional storytelling, instead offering an encyclopaedic meditation on how humans perceive, classify, and coexist with the non-human. By renouncing plot, the directors allow nature’s infinite references — movements, growths, transformations — to unfold in their own rhythms. The result is a demanding yet rewarding cinematic experience: an immersive encyclopaedia that honours the “alien” presences of animals, plants, and stones, reminding us that they constitute the essential fabric of existence.
Event Duration: 6 pm-9:35 pm
Date: 6/11/2025
Location: The Cinema Museum, The Master’s House, 2 Dugard Way (off Renfrew Road), London SE11 4TH