In his film tú me abrasas, Argentinian filmmaker Matías Piñeiro adapts “Sea Foam”, a chapter of Cesare Pavese’s 1947 book Dialogues with Leucò. By the sea, the ancient Greek poet Sappho and the Nymph Britomart are talking of love and death. Sappho is supposed to have thrown herself into the ocean from heartbreak. Britomart, to have accidentally fallen into the water from a cliff, while running from a man. Together they discuss the stories and images created around them, hoping to grasp, at least for a moment, the bittersweet nature of desire.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina 1982, and based in New York since 2011, Matías Piñeiro is a film director and writer. His feature and short films premiered in Berlinale, Locarno, Cannes, Toronto and New York Film Festival. His films usually spring from a variety of literary sources such as William Shakespeare, Cesare Pavese, Sappho and Domingo F. Sarmiento. He teaches cinema at Pratt Institute, New York and coordinates the filmmaking program at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, San Sebastian. He also has worked in film programming for Anthology Film Archives and Punto de Vista film festival. At present, he is developing two projects: the adaptation of Henry James’s The Lesson of the Master and a narrative-essay based on Francesco Petrarca's Remedies for Life. You burn me is his latest feature.
