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Visual Consciousness: Romanian Experimental Films Retrospective

"A man = a visual consciousness"; "the visual universe = the sum of visual consciousnesses", as Constantin Flondor shows on the screen in his I-You-Witness. Of course, cinema is the perfect art to prove such a dual consciousness, of self and of the surrounding world, for at its core there are two two simple passions, but also unsuspected responsibilities: to document the (deceptive) reality and modify it at will. The films of this year's Romanian Cinema Retrospective contain much of the ideas and emotions of contemporary discourses about the image — fear and doubt, fantasy and pleasure, a desire to leave a mark on the landscape, the documentary fact and the equally documentary trick — giving the impression that everything has changed and yet nothing is new. After all, the first cave painting (and image) was also a matter of consciousness, one of existing in a world whose meaning can be given through a form of representation. (Călin Boto)

THE SUN AND ITS DOUBLE

Mona Vătămanu, Florin Tudor | Duration 5 min.

Up in the sky, the sun, and another sun, the other’s double. A simple superimposition invokes with all its strength the imaginary and poetics of anticipation, raising, at the same time, the problem of the double. What does the supreme singular represent for our culture of mass reproduction?

TO BE

Petros Minopetros | Duration 6 min.

A bunch of young people, more or less hippies, waste time at the cinema with a dull film. On-screen, a man lies on the railway and awaits his end. But at some point the screen and reality become the same.

RECONSTRUCTION IN LANDSCAPE

Wanda Mihuleac | Duration 7 min.

A landscape is a landscape is a landscape. But in her view of the ambiguity of reality, Wanda Mihuleac composes an infinite landscape of reflections and lights.

METROPOÈME

Sergiu Huzum | Duration 33 min.

He and she meet by chance on the Parisian metro. They are, were, or will be – or not – together in this world without time but with infinite space of metropoems.

I-YOU-WITNESS. VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS

Constantin Flondor | Duration 15 min.

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

FAMILY SNAPSHOTS

Radu Igazság | Duration 7 min.

Time passes by quickly for a young, small family: soon it will no longer be that small, the children grow up, the parents get older, and this reality in constant motion, erased and diffused, sometimes stops itself in front of the camera.

DOCUMENTARY ABOUT…

Ioana Holban | Duration 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.

ÂME

Ion Grigorescu | Duration 16 min.

An anthology of stagings of canonical writings and ideas on "the ideology of the living thing".
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