Life is a Bitch

Life is a Bitch 1970

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"Life is a Bitch" is a sci-fi video-novel which finds its set in a possible future where the Left has the opportunity to build its project on Europa, moon of planet Jupiter. The short film follows the struggle of a left-minded couple which couldn’t afford the flight to the “Socialist Moon”.

1970

In the Light of Memory

In the Light of Memory 2010

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The film explores sites and practices of memory in post-socialist Bucharest, twenty years after the fall of Romanian communism. It was shot in Cismigiu Gardens, one of the oldest public parks in Bucharest. This central, urban space attracts people from all walks of life. It is a place for social interaction, solitary reflection, reverie, and memory. Interweaving recollections of the past with present-day scenes from the park, the film presents a montage of stillness and motion, images and voices, landscapes and people.

2010

Together, body and soul

Together, body and soul 2023

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Madame S. is about to give her daughter in marriage to Dr. Gluand, a rich old doctor. What she does not know is that Madelene is in love with the doctor's protégé, Marcel. The two begin a clandestine affair, but the doctor discovers their secret and, seeking revenge, decides to unite the two lovers... body and soul.

2023

Family Snapshots

Family Snapshots 1983

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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.

1983

Reconstruction in Landscape

Reconstruction in Landscape 1978

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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.

1978

The Sun and its Double

The Sun and its Double 2014

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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?

2014

Fructul interzis

Fructul interzis 1970

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What if as a result of the Original Sin, God didn't cast out both Adam and Eve from Paradise? What if the actual punishment were more sinister than that? If you had to wait an entire life just to see your lover, could you endure it?

1970

Four Questions

Four Questions 1967

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An unusual attempt at cinéma vérité, in which people are asked if they are happy, while city lights flood the summer nights to the strains of a tender croon.

1967

Rhythms

Rhythms 1970

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One of the very rare Romanian abstract films. Rhythms presents concrete objects that break down into all sorts of colours, shapes and shifting substances.

1970

I Was, Wasn't I

I Was, Wasn't I 2022

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The life of Mara, a teenage girl from rural Romania in the 1950s, is turned upside down after her parents arrange a marriage for her with a wealthy young man from a neighboring village. Mara finds herself in a situation with no escape, and her romantic feelings for her friend, Ioana, upset her completely.

2022

CELELALTE CUVINTE - 40

CELELALTE CUVINTE - 40 1970

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Intro, This World, Characters, Late At Night, I Will, Temptation, That's My Life, Armageddon, Cursed Nation, Thought Sickness, WWW, It's Getting Bad, Steam, The Fountain, Between Dreams, Love Letters, An End is a Beginning, If You Want, Weed Through the Hair.

1970

heart's coming into place

heart's coming into place 2023

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There's disagreement between heart and reason. While trying to find common ground, they quarrel like blind.

2023