Andrea Bussman is a filmmaker and social anthropologist based in Toronto. Her third film, Fausto, screened at the 2019 Essay Film Festival. Shot on 16mm on Mexico’s Oaxacan coast, it combines an ethnographical exploration of a pre-colonial folkloric world and loosely-adapted anti-empiricist elements from Goethe’s Faust. Her previous short films, 2016’s Tales of Two Who Dreamt and 2011’s Aquel cuyo rostro no irradie luz, similarly blended elements of documentary and fiction.
A Myriad of Myths: Andrea Bussman’s “Fausto” by Chelsea Phillips-Carr for Kinoscope
“Wavelengths: Interview with Andrea Bussman” by Josh Cabrita for Cinemascope
Few thoughts on Andrea Bussman’s Fausto at Berlin Critics’ Week by Vladimir Seput for desistfilm
Looking Through the Shadows: Andrea Bussmann Discusses “Fausto” by Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal for Notebook