In Person Nicolás Pereda
Pereda’s down-market city-symphony follows two hapless Mexico City moving-van “entrepreneurs” through a succession of run-ins with clients, friends, and family, all of whom are in perpetual motion—usually just spinning in circles, rarely heading upwards. While ignoring his mother’s constant pleas to get moving, young Gabino staggers through other people’s collapsing living situations and packs the remnants into his van; his final cargo, however, may hit closer to home. Perpetuum Mobile is a bemused odyssey among some luckless Mexico City denizens and their soon-to-be-lost belongings, scored with honking horns, slamming doors, and the awkward silence of goodbyes.
Written by Pereda. Photographed by Alejandro Coronado. With Teresa Sánchez,
Gabino Rodríguez, Francisco Barreiro. (86 mins, In Spanish with English
subtitles, Color, 35mm, From Ondamax Films)
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