Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu on his Amores Perros art show: This is an anti-AI exhibition'

"My father was naturally a great storyteller. He always started with what was almost the end of the story, so he threw you a hook, but then he went back to the middle. He was a great storyteller, always finding ways to get new hooks here and there, to get you to listen to a long story."

"I said to myself: Well, maybe I can rescue things that never did make it, and maybe they mean something. That was a seven-year process, to discover if there was something or not. The film is 2 hours and 34 minutes, and that's around 18,000 feet of film. So 1m ft is a crazy amount of film."

Alejandro González Iñárritu, celebrated Mexican director, developed an innovative storytelling approach inspired by his father's narrative techniques of starting near the story's end and layering multiple hooks to maintain engagement. His 2000 debut Amores Perros pioneered hypertext filmmaking with three interconnected threads spiraling from a central car crash. For the Lacma exhibition Sueno Perro, Iñárritu revisited 1 million feet of archived celluloid footage that never appeared in the original film. Over seven years, he discovered potential meaning in these unused materials, creating what he describes as light sculptures and dream-like sequences. The original Amores Perros contained only 18,000 feet of the vast footage shot, demonstrating Iñárritu's comprehensive filming approach and the extensive creative possibilities within discarded material.

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