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Pedro Páramo Reading Group
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Picture of Juan Rulfo, © The Rulfo Foundation


Directors Margarida Cordeiro and António Reis started adapting Mexican writer Juan Rulfo’s 1955 novel Pedro Páramo for the screen in the late 1980s – but Reis’s death in 1991 meant the project was never completed. Taking place across three standalone sessions as part of Into Their Labours: The Films of António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro, this reading group focuses on Rulfo’s novel, which echoes many of the concerns evident in Reis and Cordeiro’s films – from the realities of peasant life and the depopulation of rural areas to themes of memory and forgetfulness, the living and the dead.

You may find more information about each session and the reading materials here.
With the support of CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership.
 
Ticket information
  • All tickets that do not require ID (full price, disabled, income support) can be printed at home or stored in email
  • For aged-based concession tickets (under 25, student and pensioner) please bring relevant ID to collect at the front desk before the event.
Participants are advised to read the novel before the sessions, which are independent from each other. All sessions are free, but booking is required.

All films are ad-free and 18+ unless otherwise stated, and start with a 10 min. curated selection of trailers.

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