Discipline: Film/Video – experimental

Juan Nicolás Pereda Rodriguez

Discipline: Film/Video – experimental
Region: Toronto, CANADA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2019

Nicolás Pereda is a filmmaker whose work explores the everyday through fractured and elliptical narratives using fiction and documentary tools. His work has been the subject of 35 retrospectives worldwide in venues such as Anthology Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, Jeonju International Film Festival and TIFF Cinematheque. He has also presented his films in most major international film festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, and Toronto, as well as in galleries and museums like the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Guggenheim and MOMA in New York, and on television via channels such as HBO, Turner, MVS, Netflix, and ISat. In 2010, he was awarded the Premio Orizzonti at the Venice Film Festival.

Studios

Chapman

Juan Nicolás Pereda Rodriguez worked in the Chapman studio.

Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…

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