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Where Are Their Stories?

Directed by Nicolás Pereda

All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence

Directed by Nicolás Pereda
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  • Where Are Their Stories? (¿Dónde están sus historias?)

    Directed by Nicolás Pereda.
    With Gabino Rodríguez, Juana Rodríguez, Teresa Sanchez.
    Mexico/Canada, 2007, 35mm, color, 73 min.

Pereda’s debut feature showcases his carefully restrained narrative and visual style with its meticulously understated story of a young man trying to prevent his uncles from selling his elderly grandmother’s farm. With Pereda’s regular actors Teresa Sanchez and Gabino Rodríguez making their first appearance in the mother and son roles they have played in four films to date, Where Are Their Stories? also introduces the theme of family which unites the films, here by revealing subtle, ironic parallels between the boy’s rural home and the relatively luxurious Mexico City home where his mother works as a live-in maid. HG

  • All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence (Todo en fin, el silencio lo ocupaba)

    Directed by Nicolás Pereda.
    With Jesusa Rodríguez.
    Mexico/Canada, 2010, digital video, black & white, 62 min.
    Spanish with English subtitles.

Pereda’s background in video installation is clearly revealed in this, his most formally radical work – a meticulously staged reading of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz´s classic poem, Primer sueño, with celebrated Mexican actress and director, Jesusa Rodríguez portraying the legendary writer reciting her spellbinding poetry in various strikingly theatrical poses. Shot in high contrast black and white during the filming of an educational television program about Sor Juana, All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence reinvents the original film from the margins. Devoting equal time to the production of the film itself as the poetry, All Things… transforms the struggle of Pereda and his crew to find the ideal shadow and camera angle into abstract and mesmerizing drama. – HG

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