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DANIEL DJAMO is a Romanian artist, interested in personal and collective histories. He combines film with video art and installation with photography in order to evoke the past and to underline the now. He is the recipient of many international awards (ESSL Award, Young Artist Arize CEE, Startpoint Prize Romania, Grand Prize of the National University of Fine Arts from Bucharest) and has benefited from residencies in Paris, Kassel, Chemnitz, Bruxelles, Vienna and Liege. His works have been exhibited around the world. He is currently a PhD candidate at the National University of Fine Arts from Bucharest. His filmogrpahy includes: A LAST YEAR IN 114 MINUTES (2014), BIRDS (2014), THE FLAME FROM TEI (2013), THE BARRICADE (2012), MENU (2011 - BIEFF).
How does one tackle the contentious topic of Romanian immigrant workers in Western Europe and the backlash that they face day-to-day? By treading lightly and delicately, creating a morally and ethically fool proof dialogue. Employing a dialectic comprised of visual signifiers, Daniel Djamo’s fixed and meditative long takes of idyllic French countryside contrapuntally join with voiceless, subtitled interviews of migrant workers. Against the consistently languid landscape, these varied testimonies increase their dogmatic subjectivities, creating a dialectical «storm» of ideas that unfurls within the viewer. Distancing the dialogue from the bustling streets of Paris and disembodying the narrators, Djamo succeeds in removing any visual bias that might impede in the viewer’s reading of the topic. A wisely calculated ethical statement, this formal construction of the film lets humour and consternation animate the displacement created within the spectator. Djamo’s political frenzy leaves us no option of avoidance - the eye of the storm grows with each transcribed account, taking root within. A probing piece of subconscious cine-activism, STORM IS COMING leaves it up to us to decide when to fully engage and unleash it. (Andrei Tănăsescu, BIEFF)