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Cinema Muzeul Țăranului -
Sunday, March 20, 2016 - 17:00
Cast:
Ior Bârlădeanu
Cinematography:
Adi Bulboacă
Editing:
Cristina Baciu
Music:
Ovidiu Chihaia
International Premiere
Ion Bârlădeanu is already an iconic figure, known worldwide as a homeless art-world darling starring in Alexander Nanău’s documentary, The World According to Ion B. Carmen Lidia Vidu portrays him as a unique soul who ingenuously asserts his obsessions and favourite things found in Bucharest. Through editing she captures fragments of his digressive desires and memories, emphasizing his mercurial personality joined by a significant number of real and fictional figures which exist in his famous collages. She reaches his iconography following his artistic direction swamped in irony and social critique. The collages he puts together are his own films but Carmen succeeds to create a moving collage placing him in the center of his own picture.” (Claudia Cojocariu, BIEFF)
Director:
Carmen Lidia Vidu graduated from National University of Theatre and Film I.L. Caragiale in 2003, Bucharest, and become known for her experimental theatre shows, performed on the most important Romanian stages. She is unique among other Romanian theatre directors, successfully mixing video projections and filmic language with live acting. Her theatre shows have a different kind of artistic language while her technique gives us an authentic emotion. She became interested in directing short documentaries and also making videos, working with bands like Noblesse Oblige and Mes Quins. În 2013 she directed a short documentary for Astra Film Festival, entitled A Short History of Astra Film, which won a Gopo Award two years later.
Website:
Contact:
carmen.vidu[at]gmail[dot]com
Festivals, awards:
Hanul Gabroveni – ARCUB, Romania 2015.
Director's statement:
The movie depicts an urban, cultural, emotional and fantastic Bucharest. It is composed of houses, buildings, parks but also of movie characters, a political and real world, of imagined-mainstream figures of today. Ion Bârlădeanu is a character in his own right: he has always dreamt of playing in the movies, of becoming a hero...The collages he creates are nothing more than his own movies, therefore he is a truly director; he imagines all kind of stories. The inherent dynamics of Ion Bârlădeanu’s collages is in tune with the director’s rhythm of her art video, providing a well-planned surprise. There is no contrast between the two visual approaches, on the contrary, they make the most of each other. (Carmen Lidia Vidu)
The movie depicts an urban, cultural, emotional and fantastic Bucharest. It is composed of houses, buildings, parks but also of movie characters, a political and real world, of imagined-mainstream figures of today. Ion Bârlădeanu is a character in his own right: he has always dreamt of playing in the movies, of becoming a hero...The collages he creates are nothing more than his own movies, therefore he is a truly director; he imagines all kind of stories. The inherent dynamics of Ion Bârlădeanu’s collages is in tune with the director’s rhythm of her art video, providing a well-planned surprise. There is no contrast between the two visual approaches, on the contrary, they make the most of each other. (Carmen Lidia Vidu)