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NUMB NUMBER

Larisa Crunțeanu
Romania, 2022
20 min.

Number. Number. Numbers, graphs. Or how we learned to simulate feelings, until we can hardly tell when we don’t. Written in the style of a bad commercial, Numb-Number covers 12 years from the life of a fictional character faced with a hard question: what would you give up for an unimaginable cryptofortune?

Larisa Crunțeanu’s wanted to show what remains on the screen after everything disappears: the green screen, stock footage, ungraspable statistics, and entrepreneurial narratives as founding myths. The 12-year-long story of a young man begins, not by coincidence, with the economic crisis of the 2000s and continues up to the very recent pandemic, times the protagonist lives through inertly, completely hypnotized by a growing fortune in cryptocurrencies, the password of which he has forgotten. Why does the filmmaker’s approach irritate so much? Because it highlights the protocol images of contemporaneity, those accepted as such and assumed to mean nothing. This is what contemporary alienation looks like — Antonioni’s long shot has been updated into a green screen. (Călin Boto)

Data proiecție și locație

Saturday, 30th of September | 18:30

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Larisa Crunțeanu

Larisa Crunțeanu is an interdisciplinary artist working between research and speculation. She holds a BA in Journalism, an MA in Photography and Moving Image and a PhD at the National University of Arts, Bucharest. Her works were shown in important institutions such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, SAVVY Berlin, Zacheta Warsaw, Museu deArte Brasieira, São Paulo, and biennales like Art Encounters Timișoara, Matter of Art Prague and Warsaw Biennale. Her feature documentary debut A Small Insignificat Love (2020) won the Best Director Award at REAKTOR IFF and screened at Les Films de Cannes à Bucharest and F-Sides Premieres. In 2023 she launched her first book Protocols of Singularity with Dispozitiv Books.

  • Technical sheet
  • DIRECTOR, SCRIPT WRITER, VOICE: Larisa Crunțeanu
  • EDITOR, SOUND DESIGN: Laurențiu Coțac
  • ADDITIONAL CAMERA: Cristian Păduraru
  • VIDEO SOURCE: storyblock.com

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NUMB NUMBER

Larisa Crunțeanu | Duration 20 min.

Number. Number. Numbers, graphs. Or how we learned to simulate feelings, until we can hardly tell when we don't. Written in the style of a bad commercial, Numb-Number covers 12 years from the life of a fictional character faced with a hard question: what would you give up for an unimaginable cryptofortune?

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