SUEÑO PERRO: Instalación Celuloide de Alejandro G. Iñárritu
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Alejandro González Iñárritu
UPCOMING
5/10/2025
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An installation by Academy Award-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu will be presented globally across multiple institutions this fall. SUEÑO PERRO: Instalación Celuloide de Alejandro G. Iñárritu is a sensorial experience rooted in the intersection of cinema and visual art. So far, confirmed locations include Fondazione Prada in Milan, LagoAlgo in Mexico City, and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Fondazione Prada’s exhibition will run from September 18, 2025, to February 26, 2026; LagoAlgo’s from October 5, 2025, to January 4, 2026; and LACMA in spring 2026.
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In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Amores Perros (2000), Iñárritu’s landmark Academy-award nominated film, SUEÑO PERRO brings to light never-before-seen footage which speaks to the film’s enduring themes of love, betrayal, and violence. These gritty vignettes - once abandoned on the cutting room floor, and buried for a quarter of a century in the film archives at the National Autonomous University of Mexico - capture the charged and interconnected sociopolitical realities of Mexico City, still relevant decades later. Drawing on the raw power and visual poetry of these forgotten images, Iñárritu reimagines their impact through a mosaic of celluloid and sound. At the heart of the installation is a deep reverence for the materiality of 35mm film, whose physical grain, flicker, and warmth evoke a deep sense of nostalgia.
Audiences will walk into a dimly lit labyrinth illuminated by 35mm analog projectors, casting a continuous stream of newly juxtaposed fragments from Amores Perros. A soundscape produced specially for the installation will reverberate throughout, permeating the atmosphere like a dream. Slates, celluloid scratches, and light flares between reels will interrupt the flow—reminding visitors of the medium’s raw physicality. In an age of artificial intelligence and digital oversaturation, Iñárritu invites viewers to step into a man-made, tactile and analog landscape of memory, where the past flickers just out of reach.
As he revisits the film through this new installation, Iñárritu notes: “Over a million feet of film were left on the cutting room floor during the editing of Amores Perros. These intensely charged images, sixteen million still frames, were buried in the UNAM film archives for 25 years.
On the occasion of the film’s anniversary, I felt compelled to revisit and re-explore these abandoned fragments, with the grain and the ghosts of celluloid which they hold. Stripped of all narrative, this installation is not a tribute but a resurrection, an invitation to feel what never was.
Like meeting an old friend we have never seen before.”
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