Matias Pineiro on His Shakespeare-Adjacent Films
b'An Argentine woman translates "A Midsummer Night\\u2019s Dream" while incessantly taping travel postcards to a wall. An actress in Buenos Aires seduces her colleague while rehearsing a scene for "Twelfth Night." A theater troupe flirts its way through rehearsals of "As You Like It" in an Argentine forest. If you\\u2019re noticing a pattern here, you\\u2019re not mistaken.\\n\\nThese scenes all come from the films of Argentine filmmaker Mat\\xedas Pi\\xf1eiro. Born in Buenos Aires and now living in New York, Pi\\xf1eiro has developed a cycle of six beautifully-filmed movies he calls \\u201cThe Shakespeare Reads,\\u201d all of which are based around the female roles in Shakespeare\\u2019s comedies. Pi\\xf1eiro talks with Barbara Bogaev about his unique approach to his work and his craft.\\n\\nMat\\xedas Pi\\xf1eiro is a screenwriter, director, and filmmaker. The six films in his \\u201cThe Shakespeare Reads\\u201d series are "Rosalinda," "Viola," "The Princess of France," "Hermia & Helena," "Isabella," and the short film "Sycorax." Stream all of these films on MUBI, or buy them on Blu-ray and DVD from the Cinema Guild.\\n\\nPi\\xf1eiro teaches filmmaking at Brooklyn\\u2019s Pratt Institute and coordinates the filmmaking department at the El\\xedas Querejeta Film School in San Sebasti\\xe1n, Spain.\\n\\nFrom the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast. Published Tuesday, March 15. \\xa9 Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This podcast episode, \\u201cTo Play a Pleasant Comedy,\\u201d was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster. Ben Lauer is the web producer. Leonor Fernandez edits our transcripts. We had technical help from Andrew Feliciano and Evan Marquart at Voice Trax West in Studio City, California, and Josh Wilcox at Brooklyn Podcasting Studio in Brooklyn, New York.'