Documentary about... 1981
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.
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.
Ada Pistiner’s investigation of the sources of substandard domestic items pushes its commissioned mandate to self-scrutiny, questioning both state-imposed industrial production and filmmaking processes.
Bogdan Mihailescu creates a short animation about the famous Gopo`s little man.
Two best friends get through the most challenging moment of their friendship and it all starts when they find each other’s personal diaries.
Following a triggering experience, Eden, the titular character, retreats into her inner world. There she goes through a process of self-discovery, starting from a sense of discomfort with her queer, non-conformist side, and finally reaching self-acceptance and a renewed courage to face the outside world.
The film didactically exemplifies a few police and coroner procedures, from gathering clues at a crime scene to doing autopsies.
The film is part of a series of scientific venatorial touristic films produced in 1930 și describes the process of extracting and transforming gold in the Apuseni Mountains.
A self-potrait inside a room.
A woman gives shape to octopuses out of her own flesh. When she runs out of matter, she has to face what she has created.
Counterintelligence film from communist Romania. Also known as "Stația pilot"
Counterintelligence film from communist Romania.
In the 90's and early 2000's Romanian mainstream press began reporting on homosexuality and activism in a very flashy and sensationalistic manner. Notes on Hiding focuses on what the media didn't report on.
a scream bothers someone's existence, but it's not the horizon that holds it.
An actress remains stuck in Bucharest due to travel restrictions and clings to online conversations with her friends like a lifeline.
Two years after its founding, Vivi Drăgan Vasile makes an assessment of the Foundation: “An idea was born, namely that market economy should somehow also work in favour of the artists. Some outlawry, in other words.” It includes images from George Soros’ visit at FAV and a board meeting of the Foundation.
Chronicle of a Visit Foretold is part of a series of three music videos made by Andrieș at FAV and talks sarcastically about the visit of King Michael I, which was blocked by president Iliescu.
A happening made by students from the Art Academy, inspired by one of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s sculpture-objects. The sculpture crosses the city of Bucharest and enters into dialogue with its inhabitants, against the backdrop of the 1990s.
The hypnotic, semi-fictional diary of a young woman’s coming of age in a world which gives her no privacy.
On the one hand, the women’s aged faces, filmed among objects collected over a lifetime; on the other, the power of metaphorical images: volcanoes, cemeteries, construction sites. A meditation on the act of passing.
In a mixture of performance and body art, the artist uses her own face and body as a projector screen and painted background.