Natalio Pagés

Natalio Pagés was born in Villa Ballester, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a sociologist (UBA), filmmaker (ENERC), musician and university professor. Furthermore, he is a CONICET doctoral fellow in Social Sciences.

As a film director, he premiered the genre short films The Pact at the Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Festival (2015) and A Shadow in the Glow of Nacre at Sitges IFF (2019). He directed the feature film Lost Time, together with Francisco Novick, which premiered at Mar del Plata IFF (2020).

He’s one of the editors of the book Giallo. Crime, sexuality and style in Italian genre cinema (ed. Rutemberg), participated in the book Community: Studies in Sociological Theory (ed. Prometeo) and has published numerous articles on social theory, semiology, image, culture and memory in academic journals.

He has written about politics, music and cinema for the magazines Détour, Hacerse la Crítica, Taipei, Caligari, Calanda and Jacobin. He works at Colectivo Rutemberg as director, scriptwriter and editor, in addition to the monitoring of projects in development.

In 2024, he released his first solo album as a singer-songwriter. As of now, he is in the post-production stage of his third short film and in the development stage of a feature documentary about Alejandro “el negro” Dolina.