The Truth of Fiction: A Conversation with filmmaker Nicolás Pereda

This event will feature a work-in-progress screening of Nicolás Pereda’s Everything Else Is Noise, followed by a Q&A on the film. Preceding the screening, Pereda will give an artist talk reflecting on key aspects of his practice, including time, repetition, hybrid filmmaking, and the representation of labor on screen. He will also discuss his long-standing collaboration with a theater collective that has been central to his work, while considering broader questions around cinematic conventions and the mechanisms of representation.

ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER

Nicolás Pereda is a filmmaker whose work explores the everyday through fractured and elliptical narratives using fiction and documentary tools. He often collaborates with the theater collective Lagartijas tiradas al sol and actress Teresita Sánchez. His work has been the subject of more than 30 retrospectives and has been presented in most major international film festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, New York, and Toronto, as well as in galleries and museums including the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Guggenheim and MoMA in New York. Prior to Princeton, Pereda taught on the faculty of University of California-Berkeley, Rutgers University, and Simon Fraser University.

DISCUSSANT

Gabriela Nouzeilles, PLAS Director; Emory L. Ford Professor of Spanish, Princeton University

This event is co-organized with the film group Boquitas Pintadas.