The Absent
Art of the Real 2015
April 10 - 26, 2015
Q&A with Nicolás Pereda
In this subtle, exquisitely photographed film by ambitious young Mexican writer-director Nicolás Pereda, an elderly man is revisited by old memories after losing his property and goes on a quest to resolve them. Screening with The Palace (Nicolás Pereda, 37m).
Q&A with Nicolás Pereda
Since his 2007 debut, Where Are Their Stories?, Nicolás Pereda has distinguished himself as one of Mexico’s most treasured young writer-directors. Known for his collaborative, hybrid approach to filmmaking, The Absent marks a turn for Pereda to a focus on drawn-out scenes and careful, exquisite compositions. It centers on an old man living in the Oaxacan forest whose solitary daily routines are broken after he attends a hearing to resolve a land dispute. After this rupture, memories from his past begin to intrude, and following the demolition of his house, the man takes to the mountains in the hopes of finding people he once knew. The Absent effortlessly captures the beauty of this magnificent terrain while witnessing the abandonment of subsistence agriculture in southern Mexico.
Screening with:
The Palace / El Palacio
Nicolás Pereda, Mexico, 2013, DCP, 37m
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