Jorge Honik

Biography

Jorge Silvio Honik, (Argentina, 1940). From an early age to literature, alternating narrative with playwriting. Having completed his university studies in Pharmacy, he traveled extensively through Europe, Africa, Asia and America, alternating periods of settlement with others of transit, a ten-year journey whose memory, transformed and distorted by the myths and obsessions that animate all fiction, forms the living matter of a good part of both his narrative and his films.

Throughout this trajectory, the super 8 camera, initially intended for mere visual recording, gradually became, in view of the creative possibilities it offered, the simile of a pen, no longer intended for description and...