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08/22/2026

PIRET goes to Beirut.

We’re pleased to announce that PIRET, the new film by Julián De La Chica, has been officially selected for the Lebanese Independent Film Festival (LIFF), Lebanese Independent FilmFest, competing in the Best International Fiction Short Film category.

The festival’s 2026 edition will take place in Beirut from September 4–13.

Another stop in PIRET’s international festival journey.

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Cast

Anni Jürgenson as Piret
Susana Yasan as The Seer’s Assistant
CHICO RARO as Maestra Gertrudis
Ilona Miller as Zinaida
Liliet Reyes as Woman at the Audition
Jenni Elliott as Sister Catalina

Featuring the voices of

Maritza Oliva-Pérez as Haydeé (Radio)
Alejandro FG as Cándido (Radio)

& Hands of

Xolo Cantillo (Male) Xolo Cantillo
Alina Grubnyak (Female) АЛИНА

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Written, Directed & Edited by
Julián De La Chica

Directors of Photography
Liliet Reyes & Anyelo Troya
Pettit Green Liliet Rosa
Anyelo Troya

Music composed by
Julián De La Chica

Sound Design & Re-recording Mixing by
Kevin Yang
Kevin Yang

Color by
Ignacio Cabrera (Aliwen Color)
Ignacio Cabrera Toirac
Aliwen Color_Media Studio

VFX by
Fausto Díaz

Film Processing
NEGATIVELAND
Brooklyn, New York

Shot on
Kodak Motion Picture Film Double-X 7222
Super 16mm

Filmed in New York

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Special Thanks

Cifarra Studio
El Armario
Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan
The Green-Wood Cemetery
B&H Photo
NEGATIVELAND
Aliwen Color_Media Studio

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With gratitude and love to


Pastor Kaplan
Ilona Miller
Isabel María Monteiro
Miguel Mourato—Gordo

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©️ Irreverence Group Music

08/10/2026

Thank you to the Amsterdam New Cinema Film Festival for awarding PIRET Best Short Film.

In its first week on the festival circuit, PIRET is already going strong.

Congratulations to the entire team!

Cast

Anni Jürgenson as Piret
Susana Yasan as The Seer’s Assistant
CHICO RARO as Maestra Gertrudis
Ilona Miller as Zinaida
Liliet Reyes as Woman at the Audition
Jenni Elliott as Sister Catalina

Featuring the voices of

Maritza Oliva-Pérez as Haydeé (Radio)
Alejandro FG as Cándido (Radio)

& Hands of

Xolo Cantillo (Male) Xolo Cantillo
Alina Grubnyak (Female) АЛИНА

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Written, Directed & Edited by
Julián De La Chica

Directors of Photography
Liliet Reyes & Anyelo Troya

Pettit Green Liliet Rosa
Anyelo Troya

Music composed by
Julián De La Chica

Sound Design & Re-recording Mixing by
Kevin Yang Kevin Yang

Color by
Ignacio Cabrera (Aliwen Color)
Ignacio Cabrera Toirac
Aliwen Color_Media Studio

VFX by
Fausto Díaz

Film Processing
NEGATIVELAND
Brooklyn, New York

Shot on
Kodak Motion Picture Film Double-X 7222
Super 16mm

Filmed in
New York

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Special Thanks

Cifarra Studio
El Armario
Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan
The Green-Wood Cemetery
B&H Photo
NEGATIVELAND
Aliwen Color_Media Studio

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With gratitude and love to


Pastor Kaplan
Ilona Miller
Isabel María Monteiro
Miguel Mourato—Gordo

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©️ Irreverence Group Music

08/06/2026

“For more than two decades, New York-based artist Julián De La Chica has moved fluidly between disciplines. His body of work encompasses chamber music, opera, installation art, cinema, and, more recently, literature with his novel God's Punishment. Despite these different forms, his work consistently circles the same enduring question: What remains after memory begins to fracture?”

Thanks to Chicago Journal for this thoughtful feature on PIRET, the artists behind the film, and the dialogue between its visual language and music.

The feature also looks ahead to the October release of Julián De La Chica: Complete String Quartets, Op. 7—the world premiere recording of the complete cycle, featuring Hypnagogia and After Beauty, performed by the Kahlo Quartet.

Read the full feature via the link in our bio.

08/04/2026

Starring Estonian artist Anni Jürgenson, alongside Colombian performance artist and activist Chico Raro in a special appearance as "Maestra Gertrudis", PIRET continues the formal vocabulary that has gradually emerged throughout De La Chica cinematic work: black-and-white imagery, the 4:3 frame, long-duration takes, repetition, narrative ellipses, and a restrained visual austerity in which atmosphere takes precedence over exposition.

Music functions as one of the film’s primary narrative structures. Its conclusion is built around a movement from String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7, Hypnagogia, originally premiered by De La Chica at Carnegie Hall in 2016 during his debut as both composer and pianist. Ten years later, the complete Op. 7 cycle has been recorded by the Kahloquartet and will be released this autumn, coinciding with the festival circulation of PIRET.

El Vagabundo

Shot entirely on Kodak Double-X Super 16mm, PIRET marks Julián De La Chica's most ambitious cinematic work to date.

07/25/2026

Happy birthday

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07/19/2026

Happy Birthday to , filmmaker, cinematographer, and photographer Liliet Reyes.
Pettit Green Liliet Rosa.

Discover some of her collaborations with us on our website.

Reyes has been a fundamental part of the development of PIRET, Julián De La Chica’s third film and his first to be shot on Kodak film, playing a key role from its earliest stages through its completion.

Happy Birthday, Liliet! 🎉

07/05/2026

Happy Birthday to Domenic Salerni, violinist, composer, and member of the Attacca Quartet.

Discover his interpretation of Julián De La Chica’s SINTRA, a duet for violin and piano inspired by the historic town of Sintra, Portugal, recorded in collaboration with the composer.

Available on all major streaming platforms.

Photo by Amy Schroeder

06/26/2026

Irreverence Group Music is proud to launch the IGM Lab Podcast, a platform exploring contemporary music, sound studies, artistic research, ecology, technology, and decolonial thought through conversations with composers, artists, scholars, and cultural practitioners from around the world.

Our inaugural episode, "Escucho el territorio" (Spanish only), features Susan Campos-Fonseca, Otto Castro Solano, and Alejandro Cabezas Morera (Costa Rica), together with Rossana Lara (Mexico), reflecting on listening as a political, creative, and deeply human act in times marked by ecological crisis, violence, and dehumanization.

Irreverence Group Music is proud to launch the IGM Lab Podcast, a platform exploring contemporary music, sound studies, artistic research, ecology, tec...

06/26/2026

A new chapter begins.

Irreverence Group Music [IGM] is proud to launch the , a platform exploring contemporary music, sound studies, artistic research, ecology, technology, and decolonial thought through conversations with composers, artists, scholars, and cultural practitioners from around the world.

Our inaugural episode, “Escucho el territorio” (Spanish only), features Susan Campos Fonseca , Otto Castro and Alejandro Cabezas Morera (Costa Rica) Alejandro Cabezas M, together with Rossana Lara (Mexico) Rossana Lara Círculo contra el soundscape, reflecting on listening as a political, creative, and deeply human act in times marked by ecological crisis, violence, and dehumanization.

Bringing together perspectives on composition, soundscapes, memory, ecocide, listening technologies, and decolonial thought, this conversation poses an urgent question:

How can we learn to listen to the world—and to one another—through a more conscious, situated, and humane practice?

Now available on our website and Spotify. Link in bio.

06/11/2026

Happy Birthday to Colombian multidisciplinary artist and composer Julián De La Chica, founding member of Irreverence Group Music [IGM]

Photo by Anyelo Troya


El Vagabundo