Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer
Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer is a Mexican-American film critic, editor, and film programmer based in Brooklyn. His writing has appeared in Film Comment, Screen Slate and Le Cinéma Club, among other publications. He has edited for Washington Square News since 2020 and programmed series for Spectacle Theater, the Film-Maker’s Co-Op, and Cine Móvil. He took part in Reverse Shot’s Emerging Critics Workshop during the First Look 2023 festival.
The focus on the packaging and commodification of these plants and vegetables demystifies the agrestal fantasy of so many of our products. At first numbing, Ortín’s images of rote mechanical production begin accruing a subtlesense of dread, appearing as an unbroken and uncaring process.