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Mihai Grecu was born in 1981. After studying art and cinema in France, at the Le Fresnoy - Studio of Contemporary Arts, he has been developing a complex personal visual language. By mixing symbolic images with highly metaphorical situations and surreal atmospheres, his works challenge the viewer's perception as well as contemporary imagery, with recurring themes such as environment, war, water and metamorphosis. His films-poems have been shown in numerous film and new media festivals worldwide (Rotterdam, Festival of New Cinema in Montreal, Clermont Ferrand, Videobrasil) and exhibitions ('Dans la nuit des images' at the Grand Palais in Paris, Mois de la Photographie in Paris, Hengesbach Gallery in Berlin, etc). His filmography includes Exland (2013), Glucose (2012), Centipede Sun (2010), Coagulate (2008).
- Grand Prix - Festival Silhouette, France 2015
- Special Jury Mention - Timishort Film Festival, Romania 2015
- Special Jury Mention - FIVA Film Festival, Argentina 2015
- Award of Distinction - Ars Electronica, Austria 2015
- Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2015
- Message To Man St Petersburg Film Festival 2015
- DokuFestKosovo 2015
- Festival Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal 2015 Festival de Cinéma Européen des Arcs 2015
This film is a rare glimpse into one of the most reclusive places of the world, Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. Slowly, an unknown anomaly devours this strange city. But the city’s atmosphere of eternal celebration never changes no matter how obvious the approaching end. The people keep absurdly demonstrating the same preset patriotic behavior. The visual poetry of the film rests upon metaphoric relations being created between architectural objects, including symbols of the North-Korean regime, and the natural phenomena sent to dissolve them. The film supposes history to be a chain of situations that seem to be unshakable until they are gone forever. (Ars Electronica)