Alejandro González Iñárritu on his Amores Perros art show: ‘This is an anti-AI exhibition’

Interview Alejandro González Iñárritu on his Amores Perros art show: ‘This is an anti-AI exhibition’ Veronica Esposito Oscar-winning director returns to his breakout 2000 hit for an exhibition seven years in the making, giving visitors a new experiential look at his debut film A lejandro González Iñárritu, the Mexican director, has been widely celebrated for his innovative approach to storytelling. His 2000 debut, Amores Perros, was labeled a “hypertext film” for how its three main threads spiraled out of a central car crash, but were otherwise disconnected. In an interview where he discussed his new Lacma show, Sueño Perro – which sees Iñárritu return to hundreds of hours of footage that never made it into his debut movie – he shared that his father was the one who inspired his unique approach to film. “My father was naturally a great storyteller,” Iñárritu told me via video from Los Angeles. “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.” In the film installation Sueño Perro, which saw Iñárritu review 1 m ft of archived celluloid taken while making Amores Perros, he pushes his explorations of narrative even further, giving audiences what he alternatively refers to as “light sculptures” and a “dream” that emerged from bits and pieces of the raw materials of his lauded debut. The creation of Sueño Perro was a major process that took years of dedicated labor. “I said to myself: ‘Well, maybe I can rescue things that never did make it, and maybe they mean something,’” Iñárritu said. “That was a seven-year process, to discover if there was something or not. The film [Amores Perros] is 2 hours and 34 minutes, and that’s around 18,000 feet of film. So 1m ft is a crazy amount of film. I wanted to shoot everything, I was probably running the camera all the time.” Iñárritu, whose lat...