Late 90s to 2010 At the age of 17, she began studying screenwriting. For several years she worked as a camera assistant for many relevant directors, including
María Luisa Bemberg,
Lita Stantic and
Martín Rejtman. Her foray into animation techniques resulted in the
short movies Aurora Los Rubios was released in United States and Spain after being shown in the
Locarno, Toronto,
Gijón,
Rotterdam and
Gothenburg film festivals, and received the Audience Award and Best Argentine Film (
BAFICI), Best New Director (
Las Palmas - Canary Islands) and Best Film (L'alternative - Barcelona). It also received three
Clarín Awards: Best Actress, Best Documentary and Best Music. The film is an exploration of the director's memories of her parents, utilizing fragments, fantasies, memories, photographs, and even Playmobil toys to create a narrative that delves into the past while making connections to the present. 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.
Géminis, her third feature film, was presented in the ''Director's Fortnight'' of
Cannes Film Festival and was commercially released worldwide in 2005. In 2007, as part of the
200 años cycle at the
Televisión Pública Argentina, Carri was invited by actress
Cristina Banegas to co-direct the telefilm
Urgente (
Urgent), a drama dealing with child sexual abuse, gender violence and abortion. 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). That same year she presented the book
Los rubios: cartografía de una película at the Buenos Aires International Film Festival, which recounts the process of pre-production, shooting, post-production and release of the film of the same name. It included a version of the script with annotations by the director, removed scenes, interviews with witnesses, and archive material that formed part of the documentary body of work on which the film was based, including the correspondence -written in captivity- between Ana María Caruso, Roberto Carri and their relatives. The book was reissued in 2023, on the 20th anniversary of the film's release. Her feature film
La rabia (
The Rage, 2008), a drama set in the province of Buenos Aires that deals with themes such as sexuality, violence, social dynamics and the relationship with nature in the countryside, has been awarded with two
FIPRESCI Awards in
Havana and
Transylvania, with the distinctions of Best Director in the
Havana Film Festival and both Best Director and Best Actress in Monterrey Film Festival. Also in 2010, she directed the short film
Restos (Remains), in the course of a project promoted by the
Ministry of Culture of Argentina under the name
25 miradas, 200 minutos, which called on 25 directors to produce 25 short films of 8 minutes each, as part of the activities to commemorate the bicentennial of the
Argentine Nation. This is another essay between fiction and documentary that explores memories, imaginaries and militant cinema, censored and destroyed by the last civil-military dictatorship in her country. During 2011, Carri made
Partes de lengua, a video-installation for the Museo del Libro y de la Lengua (
Language and Book Museum), as a work that reflects on the mother tongue as a language of conquest and the problems Argentinian territory faces in the light of native languages, oral and written tradition coexisting in a state of tension. In 2012, Torta produced the program
Visibles, televised in
Tierra del Fuego and sponsored by the government of that province. The program consisted of six hours in high definition, with various activist guests and short animated clips for each episode, plus an animated glossary and journalistic reports. 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. 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; with the intention of making a sensitive experience of the memories of the traumatic events suffered by the victims of the State terrorism. it is a documentary with fictional elements, elaborated using
found footage. It was inspired by the sociological research on rustling carried out by her father, Roberto Carri, entitled
Isidro Velázquez. Formas prerrevolucionarias de la violencia (1968) and the lost film
Los Velázquez shot by Pablo Szir -a
film director who was arrested and disappeared in 1976- and Lita Stantic between 1971 and 1972. Presented at the
Mar del Plata Film Festival and premiered at the
Berlinale Forum, the movie later received the Sur Award from the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina and the Cóndor de Plata Award from the Association of Film Critics of Argentina, both for best documentary. That year she also presented the video installation about cinema and photography called
Animales puros (
Pure Animals), at the Performance Biennial BP.17 in Buenos Aires. The following year, she premiered her feature film
Las hijas del fuego (
The Daughters of Fire, 2018), a feminist porn road-movie whose protagonists start a journey from “the end of the world” -Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina-, going through erotic and romantic bonds among themselves and with a series of characters that join their adventure, branching out the plot. It was awarded Best Film in the Argentine Competition at the twentieth edition of BAFICI.
2020–present During the preventive and mandatory social isolation decreed in Argentina during the
COVID-19 pandemic, she was invited to direct a short film for the
Bitácoras series, a production by the Cont.ar platform. In that context, she released
2020: La delgada capa de la tierra during 2021, a documentary essay that explores images and sounds of a post-human Pampean landscape. In 2021 she first published
Retratos ciegos (
Blind Portraits), in Mansalva publishing house. 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. That same year, she published her first novel,
Lo que aprendí de las bestias (
What I Have Learnt From the Beasts), which was later released in Chile in 2023 and Colombia in 2024. In 2022 she held the exhibition
Cine Puro (
Pure Cinema) in Berlin. The show, held at the gallery of the
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), was organized by DAAD with the collaboration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, the Embassy of Argentina in Germany and the
Goethe Institut. Critics Jens Andermann and Roger Koza contributed texts for the exhibition brochure. 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”. The same year she published
Las posesas (
The Possessed), a book of epistolary essays co-authored with Argentine philosopher
Esther Díaz. That same year, the short film
Luis Camnitzer: Arte, estado y no he estado (2023) was released as part of the 270 series produced by the
Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) in New York. In this short film, the director follows Uruguayan artist
Luis Camnitzer through his home as he contemplates the relationship between art, education and the future. In 2024 she received the Audiovisual Career Achievement Award from
Argentine Film Directors. In 2025 she will premiere
¡Caigan las rosas blancas! (
White Roses, Fall!), a feature film, at the Big Screen Competition of the
International Film Festival Rotterdam. == Filmography ==