Gustavo Bernstein (born 5 October 1966 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine writer, filmmaker, and cultural critic.[1]
Career
editLiterature
editBernstein's early publications include Maradona, Iconography of the Motherland (1997); Ten Cinema Stories (1998); and Sarrasani, Between the Fable and the Epic (2000), a novel centered on the history of the Sarrasani Circus and the Stosch-Sarrasani family.[2][3] He subsequently published The Pilgrim Homeland (2001); Exercises of Faith (2003); and Mutatis Mutandis (2015).[4]
In 2019 he published The Face of Christ in Cinema. A Cinematic Reading of the Gospel, an essay examining representations of Christ in film history.[5][6][7] That same year he published the novel De Ronde. Portrait of a Stateless Person, a literary reconstruction of the life of Dutch chess player Chris de Ronde.[8][9] He also published Prompt Proses (2021), a compilation of journalistic writings.[10]
Film
editBernstein has written extensively on the legacy of Argentine filmmaker and writer Jorge Luis Acha. He compiled and edited Posthumous Writings, volumes I and II (2012–2014), and the collective volume Jorge Acha: una eztetyka sudaka (2017).[11][12] Bernstein has directed the films Sudacas (1997) and Thálassa, a Self-Portrait of Jorge Acha (2017).[13][14][15]
References
edit- ↑ "Gustavo Bernstein" (in Spanish). Resonancias.
- ↑ "Sarrasani" (in Spanish). Página/12.
- ↑ "Sarrasani, entre la fábula y la epopeya" (in Spanish). Zirkólika.
- ↑ "Claves de una vigorosa melancolía" (in Spanish). La Gaceta Salta.
- ↑ "Un libro de Gustavo Bernstein recorre la filmografía universal sobre Jesucristo" (in Spanish). Diario de Cultura.
- ↑ "El rostro de Cristo en el cine" (in Spanish). Imagofagia.
- ↑ "Representación cinematográfica de Cristo" (in Spanish). La Gaceta.
- ↑ "Trebejos y resonancias políticas" (in Spanish). Diario de Cultura.
- ↑ "Biografie Christiaan de Ronde" (in Dutch). Revu.
- ↑ "Prosas intempestivas" (in Spanish). Periódico Irreverentes.
- ↑ "Reseña: Jorge Acha, una eztetyka sudaka" (in Spanish). Revista 24 Cuadros.
- ↑ "La escritura de los sueños" (in Spanish). Página/12.
- ↑ "Thálassa" (in Spanish). Centro de Cultura Digital.
- ↑ "Thálassa" (in Spanish). Hacerse la Crítica.
- ↑ "Thálassa" (in Spanish). Cine Documental.