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I-YOU-WITNESS. VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS

Constantin Flondor
Romania, 1979
15 min.

A playful study of cinematic perspective x 3: three cameras, three screens, I, You, Witness.

Constantin Flondor’s film is unusually theoretical for any kind of Romanian cinema made under socialism, no matter how experimental. While not having the sober rigor of North American structural cinema, it is nevertheless one of the very few examples of a cinema of structure made in Romania: an experiment with three cameras and three screens (I, You and Witness) in which the filmmaker, together with his colleague Doru Tulcan, tests, celebrates and plays with the cinematic perspective, with its continuous centering and decentering, made possible by portable cameras (“a man = a visual consciousness”; “the visual universe = the sum of visual consciousnesses”). (Călin Boto)

Data proiecție și locație

Sunday, 1st of October | 16:00

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Constantin Flondor

Constantin Flondor (b. 1936 in Cernăuți, today part of Ukraine) is a central figure of the artistic scene of Timișoara, recognized internationally for his activity within the artistic groups 111, Sigma1 and Prolog, which he co-founded, but also due to the artistic, educational program, based on an experimental approach, which he developed together with his colleagues at the Art High School in Timișoara, in 1970. Constantin Flondor highlights a contemplative and immersive artistic practice founded on continual research and analysis of the visible and invisible relationships between organic structures and geometry, between the mysterious laws of nature, and the strict mathematical laws of science.

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