Author Hernán Sassi

Hernán Sassi

Hernán Sassi is a Professor and Doctor in Literature (UBA), and holds a Master's degree in Communication and Culture (UBA). He has taught film analysis classes at both the undergraduate (Faculty of Latin American Social Sciences) and postgraduate levels (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires). With over twenty years of experience as a film critic, he has published articles in numerous magazines, including Lezama, Hecho en Buenos Aires, Crisis, Pensamiento de los confines, El ojo mocho, La Biblioteca, Carapachay, En ciernes, Epistolarias, Km 111. Ensayos sobre cine, Revista Ignorantes, El cocodrilo, Tiempo Argentino, Lobo suelto, and Otra Parte. He currently writes for El cohete a la luna and La Tecl@ Eñe. From 2020 to 2023, he co-hosted the podcast "Los libros & la noche" with Daniela Palazzo. His published works include "Hoteles. Estudio crítico" (2007), a critical study on the film by Aldo Paparella in the Nuevo Cine Argentino collection, "La invención de la literatura. Una historia del cine" (2021), and "P3RRON3, EL CORSARIO" (2023). Additionally, he wrote the prologue for "Escritos corsarios" by P. P. Pasolini (2022), and both prologued and conducted the interviews for "El nuevo cine murió" (2021).

Mariano Llinás in the Footsteps of Borges: Playful Encounters with Documentary and Literature

Hernán Sassi

August 2024

22 Years of El Pampero Cine

Like the new generation of directors who introduced a fresh face to Argentine cinema at the start of the new century, Mariano Llinás believed it was time to close one chapter and begin another in filmmaking. Am...