His work explores the quotidian using fractured, elliptical narratives and by leveraging fiction and documentary tools. He often collaborates with the Lagartijas tiradas al sol theatre collective as well as with actress Teresita Sánchez. His work has been the subject of more than thirty international retrospectives in venues like the Anthology Film Archive, the Jeonju International Film Festival, the Pacific Film Archive and TIFF Cinematheque. Pereda has screened his films at some of the most important international festivals including Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, Toronto and Venice, as well as in galleries and museums such as the Guggenheim and Museum of Modern Art, both in New York; the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris and Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. The artist won the Orizzonti prize at the 2010 Venice Film Festival.

Flora, 2020
11 min.

This brief film essay compiles material not used in Pereda’s 2020 feature Fauna. The material reflects on the role of representation in relation to opaque power networks and their direct link to the exploitation of natural assets.

Trilogía de la propiedad privada, 2019-24
55 min.

This cinematographic performance examines the life and work of C.B., a multifaceted artist, political activist, amateur archaeologist, self-proclaimed anarchist, and creator of a small museum dedicated to the history of mining in the Sierra de Catorce desert. Combining live performance, projected audiovisual material, and documentary and fiction film techniques, the piece tells a fascinating story that points to the many ways territories can be inhabited. For Nicolás Pereda, cinema provides the opportunity to intervene in and radically modify reality, and this piece is proof of that.