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HEAVY METALS

Mihai Ghiță
Romania, 2023
8 min.

A sunny day on the Black Sea shore. Something unsettling is floating in the air.

 

Heavy Metals takes distance from everything that seems familiar, for Mihai Ghiță is a director of double meanings: the sea, the eternal leisure and the, eternal danger, is seen from above, from a drone. The drone — the insensitive look of omniscience, scientific yet simu abstract at the same time. Meanwhile a megaphone voice, robotic but recognizably human, known unanimously for promotionally upbeat announcements, recites a generic personal text about anguish and inability, similar to what a course in personal underdevelopment might be. It’s been a long time since someone tried to destabilize such a place — the commonplace. (Călin Boto)

Data proiecție și locație

Saturday, 30th of September | 18:30

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Mihai Ghiță

Mihai Ghiță is a writer-director based in Bucharest, Romania. After graduating with an MA in film directing at UNATC „I.L. Caragiale”, his short film, God the Mother, has been screened at Sarajevo IFF and Transylvania IFF. Mihai is currently in post-production with his debut feature documentary Coqs. He is also a PhD student in visual anthropology, at the University of Craiova, Romania, working on a thesis about generative memory in post-cinematographic media.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • DOP: Marius Apopei
  • SOUND: Ștefan Ruxandra
  • SCRIPT, DIRECTION, EDIT, MUSIC: Mihai Ghiță
  • CREDITS, POSTER: Dimitrie Tuduciuc
  • PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION: Ana-Maria Gheorghe
  • PRODUCED BY: Blitz Film

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