To mark 25 years since Amores Perros, Alejandro G Iñárritu returns with Sueño Perro, a film installation built from long-lost footage opening this September at Fondazione Prada.
Alejandro G Iñárritu is heading back to where it all began. To mark 25 years since Amores Perros introduced his voice to global cinema, the filmmaker returns to the fragments he left behind.
Opening 18 September at Fondazione Prada in Milan, Sueño Perro is built from over a million feet of film discarded during the original editing process. These images, sixteen million still frames, long sealed in the archives of UNAM in Mexico, never made it into the final cut. Now they take center stage.
This isn’t a sequel or a making-of. It’s a walk-through film installation stripped of narrative, projected through a labyrinth of analog 35 mm. There’s no linear story, only heat. The flicker of real celluloid, the echo of a bespoke soundscape, the sense of time moving in reverse.
Visitors will pass through the Podium, Fondazione Prada’s ground floor, where scenes loop and collide in a dim space powered by film’s physicality, scratches, fades, and abrupt slates left in. The idea is not to remember Amores Perros, but to meet the images that could have been.
This is Iñárritu’s third collaboration with the foundation. His previous project, CARNE y ARENA, a virtual reality work staged in Milan in 2017, earned a rare special Oscar for its innovation. But Sueño Perro swings in the opposite direction. Full analog, tactile, resolutely human-made.
Upstairs, Mexican writer Juan Villoro presents Mexico 2000: The Moment That Exploded, a layered companion piece examining the cultural and political landscape that shaped the original film. There are press clippings, street photography, sound recordings. A collage of the country’s last true turning point, or maybe just its most documented one.
Sueño Perro runs from 18 September 2025 through 26 February 2026 at Fondazione Prada, Largo Isarco 2, Milan. Tickets will be available on fondazioneprada.org, with press preview access on 17 September. The installation will travel to Mexico City’s LagoAlgo in October, followed by LACMA in spring 2026.
