Filmmakers Christopher Harris and Nicolás Pereda will join the Lewis Center for the Art’s Program in Visual Arts faculty at Princeton University in July.

Christopher Harris
(Photo by David Hermantas)

Harris, appointed as a professor of visual arts, makes films and video installations that read African American historiography through the poetics and aesthetics of experimental cinema. Pereda, appointed as an associate professor in visual arts, makes films that explore the everyday through a weaving together of scripted narratives and documentary observation. They will begin teaching in the fall 2024 semester.

Harris comes to Princeton from the University of Iowa, where he has taught since 2017, most recently as the F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor in film and video production. His current project is a series of optically printed 16mm experimental films in conversation with canonical works of African American literature. His films have appeared widely at festivals, museums and cinematheques, including an upcoming solo screening at the 2024 Whitney Biennial.

Nicolás Pereda

Pereda comes to Princeton from the University of California-Berkeley, where he has taught since 2020, most recently as an associate professor. He often collaborates with the theater collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol and actress Teresita Sánchez. His work has been the subject of more than 30 retrospectives and has been presented in most major international film festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, New York, and Toronto, as well as in galleries and museums like the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Guggenheim, and Museum of Modern Art in New York.