Diego Moldes Explained

Diego Moldes
Birth Place:	Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Alma Mater:	Complutense University of Madrid, Pontevedra Campus
Occupation:	Film historian, writer, critic
Genre:	Essay, film history, film criticism, narrative

Diego Moldes González - is a Spanish writer, critic and film historian.

Biography

Born in Pontevedra, Spain, Diego Moldes is the author of 14 published books that are non-fiction, narrative and poetry. In twenty years, between 2004 and 2023, he has published fourteen books.^[1]

Among his books are the historic novel Daydreaming, and cultural works such as Vertigo´s Footprint (2004); Roman Polanski: The tormented fantasy (the first book in 2005 about Roman Polanski in Spanish); European Cinema: The Great Movies (2018); and Alejandro Jodorowsky (a 2012 monography prefaced by Jodorowsky himself). Moldes also authored Venuspassion (in 2014 with an introduction by Luis Alberto de Cuenca), and Not One Day Without Poetry (a 2018 book on poetry).

In November 2019, he published his eleventh book, which is a lengthy work: When Einstein Met Kafka. Contributions of the Jews to the Modern World. This book was the result of twenty years of research. It involved reading more than three hundred books and over two thousand articles and documents, as well as the viewing of some two hundred documentary and fiction films.^[2] The Catalan critic Toni Montesinos praised the book, calling it "great merit" and "formidable work". It also received positive reviews in Spanish media such as Televisión Española,^[3] El País,^[4] La vanguardia,^[5] ABC^[6] or El mundo.^[7]

Diego Moldes holds a degree in Advertising and PR from the Faculty of Communication of Pontevedra, a master in publishing from Oxford Brookes University / Publish Editrain, and a PhD in information science (audio-visual communications) from the Complutense University of Madrid.

In 2000, he became a TVG presenter in Galicia: three years later, he moved toward marketing, advertising, and digital content in the cultural field, chiefly focusing on book, movies, music and comics. His connection to Judaism led him to collaborate with the Sefard-Israel Centre ^[8] and Raices: Revista judia de cultura (Roots: a Jewish Cultural Magazine). From 2015 to 2018, he served as director-general of Hispanic-Jewish Foundation.^[9] In 2015, he became president of the Fania Association, a group which combats antisemitism and supports cultural endeavours. In 2019, he became director of institutional relations of the Nebrija University and the Antonio de Nebrija Foundation.^[10]

In November 2023 he published his first book in the United States, the bilingual poetry collection Ni una poesía sin día - Not a Poem Without a Day (Artepoetica Press Inc., New York).^[11]

Published work

Narrative

• Daydreaming^[12] (Ensoñación, Ediciones Pigmalión, Madrid, 2012), novel.
• Venuspassion^[13] (Venuspasión, Notorious Ediciones, Madrid, 2014), essay, narrative, stories and poetry.

Poetry

• Not One Day Without Poetry^[14] (Ni un día sin poesía, Ed. Mueve tu lengua, Madrid, 2018), poems. Foreword by Alejandro Jodorowsky.
• Ni una poesía sin día - Not a Poem Without a Day (Artepoetica Press Inc., New York, 2023), bilingual collection of poems, 314 pp. ISBN 978-1952336256. Translated by Colleen Terry.^[15]

Essay

• When Einstein meet Kafka. Contributions of the Jews to the modern world (Cuando Einstein encontró a Kafka. Contribuciones de los judíos al mundo moderno, Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2019). Foreword by Esther Bendahan.^{[16] [17] [18] [19]}
• En el vientre de la ballena. Ensayo sobre la cultura (In the Belly of the Whale. Essay on culture, Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2022).
• Antonio de Nebrija y su origen judeoconverso (Antonio de Nebrija and his Judeo-converso origin, Barcelona, Editorial Gedisa, 2023).

Film books

• Vertigo's footprint ^[20] (La huella de Vértigo, Ediciones JC, Madrid, 2004). Film Essay on the Influence of Vertigo, by Alfred Hitchcock.
• Roman Polanski. The fantasy of the tormented (Roman Polanski. La fantasía del atormentado, Ediciones JC, Madrid, 2005). Essay.^[21]
• European cinema. Great movies^[22] (El cine europeo. Las grandes películas. Ediciones JC, Madrid, 2008). Essay on European Sound Cinema (1930-2007).
• The manuscript found in Zaragoza. The novel of Jan Potocki adapted to the cinema by Wojciech Jerzy Has (El manuscrito encontrado en Zaragoza. La novela de Jan Potocki adaptada al cine por Wojciech Jerzy Has, Ediciones Calamar, Madrid, 2009).^[23]
• Alejandro Jodorowsky (Col. Signo e Imagen / Cineastas, Ediciones Cátedra, Madrid, 2012).^{[24] [25] [26]} Monographic essay, foreword by A. Jodorowsky, 496 pages.

Notes and References

1. https://southseriesfest.com/en/dvteam/diego-moldes/
2. Web site: StackPath. 20 November 2019. www.galaxiagutenberg.com.
3. Web site: La aventura del saber. Cuando Einstein encontró a Kafka - RTVE.es. 9 March 2020. www.rtve.es.
4. News: "El antisemitismo goza de muy buena salud". Jorge. Morla. El País. 11 February 2020. elpais.com.
5. Web site: Los judíos, la ciencia, las bellas artes y el humor. 2 March 2021.
6. Web site: La herencia judía en la base de nuestra civilización. 19 May 2020. abc.
7. Web site: De Einstein y Kafka a Natalie Portman: los judíos que escaparon del gueto. 2 December 2019. ELMUNDO.
8. Web site: Centro Sefarad-Israel - Inicio. www.casasefarad-israel.es.
9. Web site: Conoce la Fundación Hispanojudía. Fundación Hispanojudía.
10. Web site: Fundación Antonio de].
11. Book: Ni Una Poesía Sin Día - Not a Poem Without a Day . 978-1-952336-25-6 . Moldes . Diego . 31 October 2023 . ARTEPOETICA PRESS Incorporated .
12. Web site: Ensoñación.
13. Web site: Venuspasión – Notorious Ediciones.
14. Web site: NI UN DÍA SIN POESÍA de Diego Moldes. Mueve tu lengua.
15. Web site: 2023-12-05 . 2023-12-04 . Diego . es . Moldes . Cinco poemas de Ni una poesía sin día — Not a Poem Without a Day, de Diego Moldes . Zenda.
16. Web site: Toni Montesinos Jesús Ferrer . Ángeles López . Sagrario Fernández-Prieto . 28 November 2019. Los libros de la semana: La última novela de Antonio Lobo Antunes y la influencia judía en la cultura europea. 30 November 2019. La Razón. es.
17. News: Morla. Jorge. 11 February 2020. "El antisemitismo goza de muy buena salud". El Paais. es. El País. 13 March 2020. 1134-6582.
18. Web site: Imparcial. El. Diego Moldes desmenuza la cuestión judía. 13 March 2020. El Imparcial. es.
19. Web site: 6 February 2020. La palabra que crea el mundo. 13 March 2020. Zenda. es.
20. Web site: Diego Moldes analiza la estela de «Vértigo» en el cine. https://web.archive.org/web/20130730180547/http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/hemeroteca/2004/10/20/3130785.shtml. 30 July 2013. 15 January 2013.
21. http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/cutrevision/2010/6/24/resena-cine-roman-polanski Reseña de cine: Roman Polanski
22. Web site: Pépé le Moko - miradas de cine nº 89, agosto 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20131015050845/http://www.miradas.net/2009/08/estudios/pepe-le-moko.html. 15 October 2013. 15 January 2013.
23. El laberinto fantástico de Jan Potocki, por Antón Castro, El Heraldo de Soria y El Heraldo de Aragón, 23 November 2009. http://www.heraldodesoria.es/index.php/mod.noticias/mem.detalle/idnoticia.35582/relcategoria.308
24. News: Jodorowsky nunca descansa. Gregorio. Belinchón. El País. 12 October 2012. elpais.com.
25. Web site: Alejandro Jodorowsky - cine para leer. https://web.archive.org/web/20170607215308/http://www.cineparaleer.com/libros/item/1175-alejandro-jodorowsky. 7 June 2017. 18 December 2012.
26. Web site: Magazine - decine21.com - decine21.com. Decine21.