Albertina Carri

[4] She is the daughter of Ana María Caruso, professor of Literature from the University of Buenos Aires, and Roberto Carri, Argentine sociologist, essayist and founder of the “Cátedras Nacionales”, both of whom were members of the Montoneros organization.

At the age of 16, she settled in the household of Alcira Argumedo, who was a fellow comrade of her parents, a member of the Cátedras Nacionales, a prominent sociologist and political figure of Argentine popular nationalism.

[8] In 1998 she began working on her first feature film, No quiero volver a casa (I Don’t Want To Go Home), which premiered in 2000 and was selected to be screened at festivals in Rotterdam, London and Vienna, among others.

Also in 2001 she was invited to be part of the selection of short films that would compose Historias de Argentina en vivo, a project that called on different filmmakers to freely portray a series of concerts organized by the Argentine Secretariat of Culture.

An actress and a film crew, which occasionally appears on camera, contribute to the intricate construction of the fractured universe in which the protagonist repeatedly encounters the limited boundaries of memory.

Fama (Fame, 2003), her short film starring actress Dolores Fonzi, was part of the series Mujeres en rojo, premiered on Argentine television by the Telefe network.

[21][22][23] The narrative delves into the intricate dynamics of a bourgeois family in Buenos Aires, unveiling conflicts that arise during the eldest son's nuptials and in the sexual relationship between two siblings.

[25] She was also part of the documentary series Fronteras argentinas, produced by the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts and the Encuentro channel, with the episode Tracción a sangre (Animal Power).

[31][32] She founded the production company Torta in 2010 along with Marta Dillon, with which they produced a series of four documentaries called La bella tarea (The Beautiful Task), about women's rights in childbirth, about the different ways of bringing forth and about the appropriation of this physiological process by the medical corporation.

The same year Carri directed the successful 13-episode miniseries 23 pares (23 Pairs), which aired between September and December 2012, addressing issues such as family, filiation and identity in recent Argentine history through a police plot, starring Érica Rivas and María Onetto.

[35] Between 2014 and 2016 she served as artistic director of Asterisco, the international LGBTIQ film festival, which takes place for a one-week period every year in the City of Buenos Aires.

In 2015, Carri staged the exhibition Operación fracaso y el sonido recobrado in the Parque de la Memoria de Buenos Aires;[36][37] this exhibition consisted in five video installments with different formats: audible, sculptural and visual, forming an intimate and reflective corpus about the multiple ways of evocating memoria,[38][notes 1] with the intention of making a sensitive experience of the memories of the traumatic events suffered by the victims of the State terrorism.

[46] The book, also written during the isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, comprises dialogues between Carri's poems and drawings by Juliana Laffitte, one of the members of the Mondongo art group, with whom she holds a friendly relationship.

In this regard, DAAD director Silvia Fehrmann wrote: “Carri stages the materiality of cinema, transforming 7,000 meters of celluloid, projectors discarded for the sake of a supposed progress, short films, sound works and autobiographical documents into an experimental narrative device”.

[3] In 2023, Carri released Palabras ajenas (The Words of Others), a medium-length film produced between 2021 and 2022, which pays homage to the homonymous work by Argentine artist León Ferrari -a literary collage made between 1965 and 1967 in the context of the Vietnam War- with a montage of audiovisual footage recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Albertina Carri captured during the shooting of the series called 23 Pairs (2012)
Albertina Carri captured during the shooting of the series called 23 Pairs (2012)