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ALEXANDRU PETRU BĂDELIŢĂ (b. 1989, Romania) has obtained a BA and a MA in video editing and sound design from the National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale” Bucharest. He designed the sound and did the video editing for shorts that have been selected in various film festivals. In 2013, he won the Best Romanian Film Award at BIEFF with IMAGE FISHERMAN. He first entered the movie world at “Filmul de Piatra” Film Festival, but discovered his interest for directing with the documentary MAMMA ROMA. He did his best work under the guidance of his professor, Cristina Ionescu, and takes his inspiration from Ingmar Bergman’s films, the documentaries made at Sahia, New Romanian Cinema, the film Duios Anastasia trecea and from music. He is currently studying in France at Le Fresnoy – National Studio for Contemporary Arts.
Starting from the idea of the dream within a dream, Bădeliță combines the sleeping protagonist’s mundane thoughts with symbolic images that show these thoughts’ crippling effects. Forced to bury his childhood dreams, he digs a weapon with which he learns to protect himself from the existential crisis he is facing and the pressure that come along with maturity. The disoriented walk by the beach ends in a hopeless note, with him lying on the sand in the fetal position, returning to a childish state, not being in control of his life. The conclusion and the quieting of anxiety comes with a combination of lines from Edgar Allan Poe: These things that I have been so far it’s but a dream within a dream, suggesting a needed philosophical detatchement from the self. (Gabriela Lupu, BIEFF)