Renowned Argentine writer and filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky, whose hybrid work between fiction, memoir, and essay earned him praise from names like Susan Sontag, passed away in Buenos Aires on June 2, at the age of 85. “A man of many countries, as well as his own,” wrote film historian Fernando Martín Peña for the introduction of a special program of two of his films the Buenos Aires Latin American Art Museum will present on Sunday, June 9. “A worshiper of both gossip and elegance.
Mundane, milonguero , nocturnal. A sharp conversationalist,” he added. Born in Buenos Aires in 1939, in a home of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, Cozarinsky grew reading classic literature by authors like Henry James and Joseph Conrad, and nurturing on Hollywood’s golden-age films at the old cinemas of Buenos Aires (a topic he would masterfully write about in his 2006 book Palacios plebeyos ).
A young friend of Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo, Cozarinsky became a collaborator in their landmark cultural magazine Sur , where he also met Jorge Luis Borges. His early works in the 1970s dealt with gossip as a literary form and the connection between Borges’ work and film in his essential Borges y el cine . Yet his most notorious work at the time was mostly cinematographic, with his first film .
.. o Puntos suspensivos premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971.
The film was also a candidate for Best Film at the MoMa Film Festival in New York. Cozarinsky spent most of the 1970s and .