Guillermo G. Peydró

Guillermo G. Peydró (Madrid, 1981) is a filmmaker, videoartist and film programmer. He has been an External Advisor at the Modern Art Museum of Mexico DF, and also a film programmer for the International Film Festival Punto de Vista (Navarra, Spain) and for the Greenpoint Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY). He studied Filmmaking in Madrid, completed with a specialization in Film Studies (Brookes University, Oxford), and had his PhD in Art History with a thesis on the critical dialogue between cinema and the visual arts since the advent of the 20th century. In 2014 he was invited to discuss the conclusions of his theoretical and practical work in the ACLA Seminar at the New York University, and at the Bard College.

His audiovisual work explores the main questions concerned by the Essay Film form, to consider its limits and transcend them within the exhibition espace. It has been exhibited in film festivals, museums, universities and galleries of sixteen countries, in theater screening format or as an installation that goes beyond the traditional screen.