10/10: Matías Piñeiro

In 2016, we invited Matías Piñeiro, director of acclaimed films such as You Burn Me, Isabella, and Hermia & Helena, to share his list of ten favorite films from the last ten years (2006 - 2016). It became the first post for Transmissions, our blog devoted to movies and moviegoing. The list highlighted new filmmakers like Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and stalwarts like Hong Sangsoo (see the list). Now, ten years later, to relaunch Transmissions, we asked Matías to reflect once again, this time on the decade from 2016 to 2026, and assemble a new list of favorite films. Below are his selections, along with “one element from each film that I will forever cherish.”

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- in no particular order - 

1. Classical Period (Ted Fendt, 2018)

I remember a young woman’s anxiety around the act of reading.

2. The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sangsoo, 2022)

I remember a colorful declaration of love followed by a black and white ending.

3. The Faculties (Eloísa Solaas, 2019)

I remember the vitality, the beauty and absurdity of the act of learning.

4. Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2023)

I remember the opacity behind the character’s actions; a sense of edge; the music of something broken that breathes.

5. Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024)

I remember the walk just before it speeds up, running across a bridge away from murder.

6. Days (Tsai Ming-liang, 2020)

I remember the distance between the parallel story lines that will inevitably meet, an infinite love song.

7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman, 2020)

I remember the bus back home, an uncertain sense of peace after a woman’s life-storm.

8. La Flor (Mariano Llinás, 2018)

I remember the stars up in a Southern sky.

9. Dildotectonics (Paula Tomás Marques, 2023)

I remember a bittersweet voice singing while a nun runs through the forest after burying her ceramic dildo.

10. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude, 2023)