Sueño Perro: A Film Installation by Alejandro G. Iñárritu Opens September 18 at Fondazione Prada, Ahead of Milan Fashion Week
August 26, 2025- Alejandro González Iñárritu Fondazione Prada
September in Milan is a season of shows, fittings, and the rituals of fashion week. But in the middle of the city’s style agenda, Fondazione Prada is staging an exhibition that will certainly draw the fashion crowd into cinema. Just ahead of fashion week, Fondazione Prada launches Sueño Perro: A Film Installation by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, a project marking the 25th anniversary of Amores Perros and running through February 26, 2026. The show coincides with fashion week, giving you one more reason to head south of the city center.
Inside Sueño Perro
The installation occupies the ground floor of the Podium. A maze of 35mm projectors brings to life fragments of film cut from Amores Perros in 2000 and buried for decades in the archives of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. More than a million feet of raw celluloid — sixteen million frames — have been unearthed for the project.
Reassembled into a continuous flow of images and sound, the footage creates a disorienting yet hypnotic experience: flares of light, scratched reels, slates between takes. “This is not a tribute, but a resurrection,” says Iñárritu. “Like meeting an old friend we have never seen before.”
On the first floor of the Podium, the story expands. Mexican journalist and writer Juan Villoro has conceived a parallel exhibition titled Mexico 2000: The Moment That Exploded. The display mixes audio, press clippings, and photographs to situate Amores Perros in its original context — a Mexico City of political transition, fractured social fabric, and unresolved tensions.
“Filmed at a moment of change, Amores Perros did not reflect the end of an era but the beginning of a downfall,” Villoro explains. “Twenty-five years later, its social relevance is alarming: what was happening then is still happening now.”
As part of the project, a special-edition book will be released in collaboration with Mack and Fondazione Prada. Titled Amores Perros, it gathers backstage photographs, storyboards, and film stills alongside essays by Denis Villeneuve, Walter Salles, Jorge Volpi, Wendy Guerra, Elvis Mitchell, and storyboard artist Fernando Llanos, as well as texts by Miuccia Prada and Iñárritu himself.
The publication expands the installation into print — a portable archive of a film that continues to shape contemporary cinema.
Prada and Iñárritu
This is not Iñárritu’s first encounter with Fondazione Prada. In 2009 and 2016, he curated the film program Flesh, Mind and Spirit in Seoul and Milan. In 2017, he presented Carne y Arena, an experimental VR installation that later won a Special Academy Award. Sueño Perro extends this collaboration while returning to the film that defined his career.
While Milan has the honor of the premiere, Sueño Perro will not remain in Italy. From October 5 to January 4, it travels to LagoAlgo in Mexico City, returning to the place where the film was shot. In spring 2026, the installation arrives at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where an American audience will experience its imagery.
📌 Sueño Perro: A Film Installation by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
📍 Fondazione Prada, Milan
📅 September 18, 2025 – February 26, 2026
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