Ángel Faretta

Ángel Faretta (born 21 April 1953) is an Argentine author of his own theory of cinema, film critic, writer, poet and teacher. Since 1980, he has been published in various media, testing, analysis articles and reviews on art, literature and cinema. For many followers of his theory he is "the person who most reflected on the cinema in Argentina, and its theoretical more lucid, original and influential, true to his thinking and away from any fashion." About Faretta, the film critic Fernando Regueira wrote:

"Faretta is the only thinker with a Theory of Cinema (Aesthetics and general) in our own homeland, and we fear much in our Spanish language throughout." Regueira Fernando [1]

Ángel Faretta
Ángel Faretta
Born (1953-04-21) 21 April 1953
Buenos Aires, Argentina
OccupationNovelist, playwright, short story writer, poet, film critic
NationalityArgentinian, Italian
Period1980–2009
GenreFiction, essay

Biography

Angel Faretta was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He attended primary and secondary education in the priest-run Catholic school Calasanz Piarists Caballito. According to Faretta, "in those years, the secondary – at least in that place – was already a complete education. Latin, theology, philosophy, literature, and especially the interaction that was had with most of the teachers."[2]

He acknowledges in his train a series of anonymous and private teachers, as Horacio Alvarez Boero, savant in classic American cinema. About the latter, he comments: "When we chatted with Samuel Fuller, he stares at him closely and says: "Horacio, how many years did you live in Hollywood without my knowing you?".

Another focus of their training would be self-learning, where Faretta includes: "... the bookshops. And the back of bookshops. And the bars, cherries, the whiskerías like the one Tania had in front of the Teatro Cervantes ... How many years now I repeat: "Those that have not lived in Argentina, in Buenos Aires in those years will never know the sweetness of life."[2]

Collaboration magazine

Faretta began to publish several magazines. He collaborated in publications such as the legendary comic magazine and the magazine Minotauro and Fierro.

Seminars

Parallel to his activities as a journalist and film critic, he gave courses, lectures and seminars on "romance and romantic-minded," "Film and evil," "Introduction to fantasy," "The traditional symbolism," " On the myth and its relationship with art", always showing his own theory.

He founded and directed the school Aquilea name taken from the legendary Buenos Aires, called Aquilea by Jorge Luis Borges and Hugo Santiago in the movie Invasión of Hugo Santiago.

Theory

His theory of cinema was defined as "a theory of modernity and the modern world through film." Is expressed in his books "The concept of cinema" and notes "Spirit of symmetry." Faretta establishes a line of continuity between the relationship was established between the Renaissance artist and patron, which happened during the golden age of cinema between the "system of education" (Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount, Metro, 20th Century Fox, etc.) and directors: an equivalence with the idea on uncultivated despots with money "and" sensitive artists. Based on the origin of the Austro-Hungarian Empire dominated many of those pioneers of cinema, Faretta genesis in the most conclusive reason for much of his theory: "film, as an expression of the specific look and contemporary knowledge, was able developing aesthetic expression and art but not be supported in designing and liberal atheist in the world. "

According to Marcelo Zapata for Faretta: "Austro-Hungarian immigrants that Hollywood was a true" alien "religion in the body of a political power that boasts only thanks to the tinsel of fame, money and glamor, who, at heart, a contradiction. Of course, this design, film (in the traditional sense) has been lost, without replacement, at its most authentic artists."[3]

Books
  • Datos tradicionales (poemas, 1993), Data traditional (poems, 1993)
  • El concepto del cine (2005), The concept of cinema (summary of his theory of cinema, 2005)
  • El saber del cuatro (2005), Knowing the four (stories, 2005)[4]
  • Espíritu de simetría (2008), Spirit of symmetry (essay, 2008) collection of essays published in the journal Fierro during the 1980s and 1990s
  • Tempestad y asalto (2009)

References
  1. Fernando Regueira, ANGEL FARETTA. CRÍTICA COMO CONTEMPLACIÓN, ES DECIR, TEORÍA. http://www.uncriticodedomingo.blogspot.com/
  2. http://videotecaaquilea.blogspot.com/2007/06/entrevista-angel-faretta.html Reportage a ANGEL FARETTA
  3. http://www.djaen.com/articuloPrensa.asp?id=23 Marcelo Zapata, Faretta revisita sus escritos desde otra luz
  4. http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=755563
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