Gilberto Perez

Gilberto Perez (1943 – January 6, 2015) was an American Professor of Film Studies. Perez grew up in Havana, Cuba, where he was exposed to an eclectic international mix of films. He is the son of Federico Gilberto Pérez y Castillo (1911-1967) and Edenia Mercedes Guillermo y Marrero (1925-2002). He came to the United States in the early 1960s to study engineering. As an undergraduate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he became interested in theoretical physics. For Gil, theoretical physics was appealing because of its ability to explain the world around him: why a moving bicycle doesn't tip over. During the summer, he worked at American Science and Engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts, analyzing rocket trajectories. At MIT, he became well known for his sometimes pretentious column of movie reviews in The Tech. After receiving his bachelor's degree, he enrolled in Princeton University as a Ph. D. candidate in theoretical physics, but his interest in film began to overtake his interest in physics. As with his work in physics, he always had his own sensibility as to the importance of film criticism. As a film critic, he wanted to understand how and why the film functioned - why the bicycle/film didn't tip over.

He was the head of the film history department at Sarah Lawrence College from 1983-2015. He died January 6, 2015 at the age of 71. Gil is survived by his wife, Diane Stevenson, a brother, Jorge Pérez y Guillermo, two nephews, Bernardo Federico Tomás Guillermo (born 17 June 1977) and Nicolás Daniel Mauricio Guillermo (born 6 July 1979), and a niece, Juliana Edenia Antonia Guillermo (born 8 October 1981).

1967: "Shadow and Substance: Murnau's Nosferatu", Sight & Sound 36:3 (Summer). Reprinted, in Spanish translation, in the Madrid journal Revista de Occidente 61, April 1968.

1969: "Jacques Becker: Two Films", Sight & Sound 38:3 (Summer).

1971: "F.W. Murnau: An Introduction", Film Comment 7:2 (Summer). Reprinted in the anthology Passport to Hollywood (McGraw-Hill, 1976).

"Twenty-four Times a Second", Sight and Sound 40:4 (Autumn).

1972: "The Chaplin Revue", Film Comment 8:3 (Sept/Oct)

1975: "All in the Foreground: A Study of Dovzhenko's Earth", The Hudson Review 28:1 (Spring).

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