FAUNA + DEAR CHANTAL with Nicolás Pereda

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FAUNA

(Nicolás Pereda, 2020, 70 min, Spanish with English subs, DCP)

Slipping between realism and absurdity, Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Nicolás Pereda’s ninth feature, FAUNA (2020), slyly probes the influence of violence in contemporary Mexican fiction and popular imagination in a humorous tale with disquieting undertones. Pereda’s shifting, elliptical narratives are stamped with the signature set of actor-collaborators. Luisa Pardo, Francisco Barreiro, and Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez appear as Luisa, Paco, and Gabino: a young actress, her bit-player boyfriend, and estranged brother. The film’s initial set-up—a meet-the-parents comedy that, in one indelibly cringe-worthy scene, lampoons Barreiro’s real-life role on the popular narconovela NARCOS: MEXICO—morphs further into metafiction when Pereda reshuffles the elements, casting the same actors in an outlandish neo-noir scenario of mistaken identity. Screens with DEAR CHANTAL (2021, 5 min, Spanish with English subs), a characteristically playful and beguiling tribute to Chantal Akerman. 

Following the screening, filmmaker Nicolás Pereda will be in conversation with J.P. Sniadecki, Associate Professor and Director of the MFA in Documentary Media at Northwestern.

Co-presented with support from the Michael and Jane Hoffman Visiting Artist Series and the MFA in Documentary Media at Northwestern.

FREE & OPEN TO ALL

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