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Tuesday, November 24, 2020 - 19:00
Written by:
Alina Manolache
Cinematography:
Alina Manolache, Laurențiu Răducanu
Editing:
Alina Manolache
Music:
Bob Chilcott, Greener’s Sound
Producer:
Alina Manolache, Andrei Tănăsescu, Anca Hrab
A world asleep, in quarantine, seen through the lens of its invisible observers. Surveillance cameras, a police drone, a futuristic telescope view of the sun all combined in the artificial perspective of an ubiquitous kino-eye that relentlessly surveys a post-human landscape of global proportions. (Oana Ghera, BIEFF 2020)
Director:
ALINA MANOLACHE (b.1990) is a Romanian director, writer and producer of documentary films. Her films are collective portraits that follow the logic of experience and the sensuality of the moment, rather than traditional chronologies. Her filmography also includes the short films YOUR VISIT STARTS HERE, shot during a scholarship in France and set at the prestigious Centre Pompidou, and END OF SUMMER, produced by Aristoteles Workshop and premiered at Visions du Réel (2016). In 2020, Manolache premiered the documentary LOST KIDS ON THE BEACH, her feature film debut developed through Archidoc (Lisbon – La Femis – Nyon) and presented in the selection of IDFA.
Contact:
Andrei Tănăsescu
Festivals, awards:
Jihlava International Film Festival 2020 / European Film Festival, Romania, 2020
“ALINA MANOLACHE’s film starts as an effort to map a series of landscapes both familiar and strange to the audience, vistas from a world that is apparently asleep, as seen in the midst of a global crisis. Recorded by the mechanical eye of utility cameras, these views appear, at first, as dystopian visions of the world, foretelling a bleak post-human future. This impression is then overruled by additional footage, showing a series of buildings which are illuminated in the dark by the warm lights of the windows, juxtaposed by a choral musical piece - „I see life/ With all its energy/ The city streets/ The rush of time/ This is my world/ It's where I like to be”. I AM HERE is a visual poem that has the value of a manifesto, a declaration of love composed out of messages spoken in a plurality of voices and languages, out of casual human gestures that briefly appear on screen, of the gentle breeze that we can feel even if it cannot reach us.” (Oana Ghera, BIEFF 2020)