Edgardo cozarinsky biography definition

SIDELIGHTS: Edgardo Cozarinsky is a filmmaker and writer whose work often blurs the boundaries between documentary, fiction, and criticism.

Connection lost: the Argentine writer/director delves into his family's past and Jewish diaspora generally in Letter to a Father.

Critic and artist, filmmaker and writer, storyteller and essayist, Edgardo Cozarinsky is a Paris-based Argentinean probably best known in this.

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Art of the Real: Edgardo Cozarinsky

One of Edgardo Cozarinsky’s short stories pivots on a sentence that exemplifies the delicate tone—tender, sympathetic, gently ironic, a little tersely evaluative—of the Argentine writer-filmmaker’s many evocations of transatlantic émigré life. In the story (“Days of 1937”) a German pianist, having left his country during World War II, drifts through the Buenos Aires he’s come to call his home. He makes a living playing regular sets at a sparsely attended kaffebar where, once a night, he’s brought a small bowl of cocaine to keep his spirits up. Recently, he has been surprised to start getting a series of anonymous requests for German songs he thought only he remembered. One night he walks down to the edge of the city, where he believes he hears “the promising murmur of engines now at rest but which at any moment could roar into life and push these floating palaces off towards Europe.” He looks out over the water:

He saw the Rio de la Planta, like t

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Cozarinsky, Edgardo 1939-

PERSONAL: Born January 13, 1939, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

ADDRESSES: Home—Paris, France. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Harvill Press, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Rd., London SW1V 2SA, England.

CAREER: Director of films, including Puntos suspensivos o Esperando a los bárbaros, 1971; Les apprentis sorciers, 1977; One Man's War, 1982; Haute mer, 1984; Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown, 1985; Boulevards du crépuscule, 1992; Citizen Langlois, 1994; Guerriers et captives (also known as Warriors and Prisoners), 1994; Le violon de Rothschild (also known as Rothschild's Violin), 1996; Fantômes dem Tanger, 1988; Le Cinéma des cahiers, 2001; Tango deseo, 2002; Dans le rouge du couchant (also known as Sunset Boulevard), 2003; and Ronda nocturna (also known as Red Sunset), 2004. Director of films for television, including Sara, 1988; and Chaplin Today: Limelight, 2002. Actor in films, including Like a Turtle on Its Back, 1

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�Apuntes para una biografía imaginaria� by Eduardo Cozarinsky will premiere at Fundación Proa�s Auditorium

The filmmaker will discuss his work with the audience at the end of the projection

Saturday July 10, 17, 24 and 31, 7 PM
Fundación Proa’s Auditorium Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1929 (Caminito)

For more information: auditorio@proa.org

On July, Proa Cinema will present Apuntes para una biografía imaginaria (2010, 60’), writer/ director Edgardo Cozarinsky’ s latest film. The film will only be shown four times on Saturday July 10, 17, 24, 31 at 7PM.

Highlighting its experimental value, this visual biography navigates between the forms of the essay, the cinematographic production and narration without circumscribing to any specific gender. The presence of Cozarinsky, unavoidable writer, suggests the script and editing new reading territories, new frontiers in the search of memory/ remembrance