Nicolás Zukerfeld

Directing

Nicolás Zukerfeld

Born 1982-12-30 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Acting credits

Behind the camera

A Movie Made of poster
4.4

In Vigo, Spain, during Christmas, Ángel, a Spanish filmmaker, walks through the crowded streets while thinking about a possible movie made of…

A Movie Made of

2019

A Movie Made of poster
4.4

In Vigo, Spain, during Christmas, Ángel, a Spanish filmmaker, walks through the crowded streets while thinking about a possible movie made of…

A Movie Made of

2019

Search for Immortality poster
NR

Search for Immortality is a book divided into three chapters with 128 pages. But it is also 3,420 frames per second, filmed with a Bolex H16 Rex, in 16mm. Perhaps the search for immortality is precisely that: an attempt to capture a totality, at once impossible and fragmentary. And to fail.

Search for Immortality

2026

The Winter Comes After Autumn poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Winter Comes After Autumn

2017

The Winter Comes After Autumn poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Winter Comes After Autumn

2017

A Man Jumps into the Water poster
NR

On 10 December 2024, at around two o’clock in the afternoon, a homeless man immerses himself in a lake in a Buenos Aires park and disappears. From this news item, the filmmaker reflects on the films that will never be made and those that may still be possible.

A Man Jumps into the Water

2026

A Dust Filled Room poster
NR

Agustín, a comic book illustrator, doesn’t want to continue drawing. Perhaps he’s a talentless man, or maybe he just doesn’t feel like it. One day he has a dream in which he barges in her ex-girlfriend’s place. That same day, he wants to prove if everything is still there, the way he left it.

A Dust Filled Room

2023

A Dust Filled Room poster
NR

Agustín, a comic book illustrator, doesn’t want to continue drawing. Perhaps he’s a talentless man, or maybe he just doesn’t feel like it. One day he has a dream in which he barges in her ex-girlfriend’s place. That same day, he wants to prove if everything is still there, the way he left it.

A Dust Filled Room

2023

There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse poster
6.5

"Nicolás Zukerfeld’s third feature is a wry, surprising work of filmmaking-as-criticism that begins as a kind of supercut of moments from the work of pantheon Hollywood auteur Raoul Walsh. This rhythmically entrancing parade of images traces a mysterious and amusing arc across the director’s vast oeuvre—but at the halfway mark, the film reinvents itself as an idiosyncratic, essayistic investigation into memory, cinema, and their shared mutability." - NYFF

There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse

2020

There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse poster
6.5

"Nicolás Zukerfeld’s third feature is a wry, surprising work of filmmaking-as-criticism that begins as a kind of supercut of moments from the work of pantheon Hollywood auteur Raoul Walsh. This rhythmically entrancing parade of images traces a mysterious and amusing arc across the director’s vast oeuvre—but at the halfway mark, the film reinvents itself as an idiosyncratic, essayistic investigation into memory, cinema, and their shared mutability." - NYFF

There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse

2020

Let Us Now Praise Movies poster
9.5

A man who works at a book shop and writes for a film magazine meets the woman who photocopies his ID; as well as another man, an illustrator. They get together with a man who works as a waiter and produces independent cinema.

Let Us Now Praise Movies

2017

Let Us Now Praise Movies poster
9.5

A man who works at a book shop and writes for a film magazine meets the woman who photocopies his ID; as well as another man, an illustrator. They get together with a man who works as a waiter and produces independent cinema.

Let Us Now Praise Movies

2017

About Buenos Aires poster
5.0

Eleven young film-makers got together to collaborate in this atypical project. Atypical not only because of its technical specs, but because of its narrative structure. There are several scenes with only the city in common, and more as a conceptual presence at that than as a precise geography. None of those scenes contains a single "story": Each one of them is part of a larger situation that we cannot see, as though the beginning and end of each "story" had to be filled in by the audience.

About Buenos Aires

2006

About Buenos Aires poster
5.0

Eleven young film-makers got together to collaborate in this atypical project. Atypical not only because of its technical specs, but because of its narrative structure. There are several scenes with only the city in common, and more as a conceptual presence at that than as a precise geography. None of those scenes contains a single "story": Each one of them is part of a larger situation that we cannot see, as though the beginning and end of each "story" had to be filled in by the audience.

About Buenos Aires

2006

No artwork available
NR

Gaspar has his first date with Manuela. Gaspar likes Manuela. Manuela doesn't like Gaspar very much, but she likes that Gaspar likes her. They talk about the things that are usually talked about on first dates

Dios bendiga a los niños y a las bestias

2011

(How) To Be Dead poster
5.0

A young man decides to self-examine. He escapes from school and meets two friends who do not know his plan. They spend the whole day wandering around the center of Buenos Aires. Finally, the young man leaves his friends in a train while they sleep. The young man, alone, wanders through the city through the night. Security cameras monitor the city, but the young man disappears.

(How) To Be Dead

2008