Ángel Faretta (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1953) is an Argentine writer, film and art scholar, poet, poetry translator, and narrator.
Since 1977, he has published essays and analytical and critical articles on art, literature, and cinema in different media.
Film critic and screenwriter Fernando Regueira wrote, "Faretta is the only thinker with his own theory of cinema--and a general aesthetics--in our country and, perhaps, in the whole Spanish-speaking world".
His father, Donato (1900-1988), emigrated to Argentina in 1926, where he engaged in rural work in the region of the family property in Saladillo and then in industry and construction.
He studied philosophy, theology, aesthetics, history of art and religion, as well as traditional symbolism with Gillo Dorfles and Guido Aristarco in Italy, and with Adolfo Carpio, Conrado Eggers Lan, Antonio Pagés Larraya, and Héctor Ciocchini in Argentina, among others.