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DOCUMENTARY ABOUT…

Ioana Holban
Romania, 1981
10 min.

A handful of young documentary filmmakers have to make a report on a lathe machine enterprise. Only that Documentary About… is also a playful, almost cheeky film about its own making.

It was probably not the first time that Ioana Holban, daughter of the director Florica Holban and cameraman Paul Holban, played with cinema, but this time she also filmed this play. Documentary about… is a self-assumedly clumsy and seemingly naive exercise — a film about a film in which some young filmmakers want to document a mentoring program for newly arrived workers from the Arad Lathe Machine Enterprise. And they want to do it according to the school rules of cinema, according to those of politics, but also according to their own whims, so that it is never clear — however anti-illusionist — what is charming, what is insolent and what’s cautious about Documentary about… (Călin Boto)

Data proiecție și locație

Sunday, 1st of October | 16:00

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Ioana Holban

The daughter of two long-running filmmakers of the Sahia Studio, documentarist Ioana Holban (b. 1954) was part of the provocative 1980s generation of Romanian documentary, alongside Ovidiu Bose Paștina, Laurențiu Damian, Copel Moscu, Tereza Barta and other newcomers who, although in the wrong place and at the wrong time, used cinema to question realities of the late Romanian communism. She graduated from IATC (Institute of Theatrical Arts and Cinema) in 1977 and was among the last documentarists of the Sahia Studio, which became bankrupt in the second half of the 90s. 

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • DIRECTOR: Ioana Holban
  • SCRIPT WRITER: Ioana Holban, Sorin Popescu
  • CAST: Doina Mitrică
  • DOP: Sorin Popescu
  • EDIT: Mariana Andruță
  • MUSIC: Radu Zamfirescu
  • PRODUCȚIA: Studioul Alexandru Sahia

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