As You Like It

As You Like It 1970

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The documentary gathers stories of people who face their own gravestone photo while still alive. If you could choose one photograph of yourself that others will always remember you by, which one would you choose?

1970

Surge of Transference

Surge of Transference 2024

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Surge of Transference is a video essay that investigates the expansion of the internet in a small Romanian town, where communities have formed and shifted around the newly imported Western technology. Within this micro-universe, the video traces the rapid transformation of the Internet, from the early days of peer-to-peer software to the upload of online late capitalism.

2024

15

15 1970

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1970

The Memory of the Moment

The Memory of the Moment 2023

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The world of Viorica Cătuna, from Poiana Cătunarilor, in Transylvania, somewhere at 1200 meters altitude. A former teacher, she has always been passionate about knowledge, books, poetry and music. We learn her story, the history of her family and the history of her community, all in correlation with historical events that have taken place over the years. A portrait of this woman and the times, from when she learns the stories of her family to the future plans she has in her 80s. A charismatic and storied character, an encyclopedia of a vanishing community.

2023

The Trial

The Trial 2005

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A film constructed on a text that seems to be a theatrical performance rather than the transcript of a trial. The camera traces facades of communist housing blocks, depressingly unchanged over the years, as the transcript from the trial of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena, is read without pause or emotion. The intensity of the film is created by the tension between the dizzying and unceasing movement of the camera and the continuous and expressionless reading of the trial script, recording a very dark episode of modern history. — Anthology Film Archives

2005

Blue Planet

Blue Planet 1970

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Five simple people past their first youth have the band "Dio Family". Two taxi drivers, a painter, a baker and a nurse try to get out of the monotony of everyday life through their passion for music. Lack of money, free time, fatigue, failures are at every step, but nothing stops them, because they feel that if they give up they will lose this last bet to find their happiness.

1970

Transalpina - The Road of Kings

Transalpina - The Road of Kings 2016

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With its breathtaking beauty, Transalpina is more than a spectacular roadway serpentining across the mountain. The age of the road connecting Transylvania with Walachia is counted in thousands of years.

2016

On the Road

On the Road 1998

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Every autumn, shepherds from Transylvania set off with their flocks in search of green grass. This Sheep Road is to some extent like the famous historic Silk Road and the Salt Road.

1998

Condiția umană

Condiția umană 1994

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A succession of paintings of daily life in Romanian prisons.

1994

The Digital Analysis of Images

The Digital Analysis of Images 1986

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" The Department of Applied Electronics at Bucharest's Polytechnic Institute created and tested a computer-based image-processing installation. The ways in which the discoveries could be used are presented. "

1986

Fragmentations

Fragmentations 1970

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Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived happily with her parents and her younger sister. But the little girl lived in Romania and her parents really wanted a house for them, so they went to work in Spain. The little girl stayed with her sister in the care of her grandmother and so the years passed, until one day the little sister told her that their parents were going to return. So the little girl began to hope.

1970

Remote

Remote 1970

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An odd night at a strangers home.

1970

When the MIG’s fly

When the MIG’s fly 2023

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In the context of the war in Ukraine, two friends discuss the possibility of being drafted. They start challenging each other to prove that they’re not capable of killing anyone.

2023

Today I was Young and Pretty

Today I was Young and Pretty 2007

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Most of the Gypsy population of Clejani, a village located some 50 km away from Bucharest, traditionally consists of musicians going back for many generations. The film shows how the musicians relate to daily life and the way their perception of reality influences their music. Firm belief in superstitions, the unavoidable blows of fate, communication with the dead, become the sources of inspiration and expression, of joy and sorrow. Alexandra Gulea’s unconventional documentary takes us on a musical journey to the origins of romanian gypsy music.

2007

Gestures of Resistance

Gestures of Resistance 2019

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Gestures of Resistance connects the personal testimonies of some of the last survivors of the Holocaust from Romania, Czech Republic and Slovakia through their presentations of antifascist resistance - chapter 1: Armed Resistance, chapter 2: Civil/Political Resistance, chapter 3: Resistance through Art, chapter 4: Resistance through Solidarity.

2019

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