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A FLAT IS BORN

Cristina Iliescu
Romania, 2023
15 min.

People and fragments of interfaces, buildings and corporate logos merge into an amalgam being built across Bucharest. Over the city’s spaces is superimposed a look that calls to mind reminiscences of Hollywood technicolor backgrounds.

A Flat is Born can be about any place, just as it can be about all places. Although the filmmaker is interested in the pragmatic idea of ​​housing — an idea which precedes the much more romantic one of home —, the film refuses itself any concreteness, but rather finds, and further elicits, great pleasure in playing with blurry, zoomed-on details and fast-moving images of a Bucharest under continuous construction. It is that kind of well-known online images which, whether posted alarmingly, as if necessary proof, or whether posted out of awe, to merely capture the passion of the twilight on a certain day, have the consciousness of coexistence, so present in Cristina Iliescu’s gaze. (Călin Boto)

Data proiecție și locație

Saturday, 30th of September | 18:30

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Cristina Iliescu

Cristina Iliescu is into hybrid cinema, experimental cinema and non-narrative structures. A.I. Poetries of Female and Non-Female Beings in Gas Stations at Night, their debut short film, won the National Competition in BIEFF 2022, and has been screened in festivals such as Glasgow ISFF and FEKK Film Festival, as well as in galleries and art installations across Romania. In 2023, Cristina Iliescu was a mentor and organizer for the Echo III – For Memory’s Sake videopoem residency in Bucharest; they are part of rhea platform. Currently, they are working on a PhD at UNATC Bucharest, researching the impact that short filmic phenomena (reels, TikToks or insta-stories) has on cinema.

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