{"id":7078,"date":"2016-10-21T09:35:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T15:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=7078"},"modified":"2025-01-09T21:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T03:45:27","slug":"october-27-nicolas-pereda-minotaur-and-the-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2016\/10\/21\/october-27-nicolas-pereda-minotaur-and-the-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicol\u00e1s Pereda: Minotaur and The Palace – Thursday, October 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, October 27\u00a0<\/strong>| Join us\u00a0next week for a screening and discussion with Mexican filmmaker\u00a0Nicol\u00e1s Pereda!<\/p>\n

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Still from The Palace (Nicol\u00e1s Pereda, 2013). Image courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nicol\u00e1s\u00a0Pereda\u2019s<\/span> extraordinary films intertwine documentary and narrative to portray everyday life in Mexico. In his first Chicago appearance, Pereda presents two recent works, each a suggestive fable of labor and leisure. <\/span>The Palace<\/em><\/i> (2013) follows an enigmatic household of women and young girls who train each other to become housekeepers. The puzzle-like chamber piece <\/span>Minotaur <\/em><\/i>(2015) focuses on a trio of young adults as they read, sleep, and commune in the soft light of a Mexico City apartment. In Spanish with English subtitles.<\/span><\/p>\n

2013\u201315, Mexico, DCP, ca 91 min + discussion<\/span><\/em><\/i><\/p>\n

Presented in collaboration with the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art<\/a>, which presents Pereda’s 2010 feature\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/i>Summer of Goliath<\/span>\u00a0on Friday, October 28.<\/span><\/em><\/i><\/p>\n

Nicol\u00e1s\u00a0Pereda<\/a>\u00a0(b. Mexico City) is a filmmaker whose work explores the everyday through fractured and elliptical narratives using fiction and documentary. He has been the subject of more than 20 major surveys worldwide, including at the Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge; Jeonju International Film Festival, Seoul; and TIFF Cinematheque, Toronto, among others. His films have premiered at major international film festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Venice,\u00a0Locarno, and Toronto, and his work has been exhibited in the Reina\u00a0Sof\u00eda, Madrid; the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; and\u00a0MoMA, New York. In 2010 he received the\u00a0Premio Orizzonti Award\u00a0at the Venice Film Festival. He is the Director of the Filmmaking Program, a new BFA program at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, October 27\u00a0| Join us\u00a0next week for a screening and discussion with Mexican filmmaker\u00a0Nicol\u00e1s Pereda! Nicol\u00e1s\u00a0Pereda\u2019s extraordinary films intertwine documentary and narrative to portray everyday life in Mexico. In his first Chicago appearance, Pereda presents two recent works, each a suggestive fable of labor and leisure. The Palace (2013) follows an enigmatic household of women […]<\/p>\n

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