FILM & VIDEO based projects
[art videos / short films / video work for art installations & related projects / video documentation of performances and actions.]
FILM & VIDEO based projects
[art videos / short films / video work for art installations & related projects / video documentation of performances and actions.]
Crăciun/ Christmas Time
720p HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & no sound, 2' 30", 2010
Disclosure (Un Chien)
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 1' 53", 2010
Art after Art after more Money *
* part of a installation
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 2' 55", 2010
Colecționarul de Țepe/ Stakes Collector
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color, sound, 1' 11", 2010
Short Duty Visit *
* documented performance/ part of an installation
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color, sound, 4’20", 2009
Sunday for Heroes (Washed Steps)
DV video on DVD, color, sound, 2'20", 2009
Near a Monument (Sunday Walk)
DV video on DVD, color, sound, 2'20", 2009
Lost in November (Sunday 15th)
DV video on DVD, color, sound, 2'20", 2009
Theme Park (Brancuși)
720p HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 3' 38", 2010
Cross over Labor
DV video on DVD, color, sound, 3' 20", 2009
Saturday Showcase
DV video on DVD, color, sound, 3' 20", 2009
The acceptable Face of the Wall
DV video on DVD, color, sound, 3' 20", 2009
The Possibility of a Piu Piu
HD video on DVD/Blu-Ray, B&W, sound, 21’, 2009
Circumstances
HD video on DVD, color, sound, 6’40", 2009
Campionii / The Champions
video from digitalized 80s Romanian sport & education propaganda slides.
DVD, color, No sound, 55 sec, 2009
Self-Deliverance
* part of a video installation
DV video on DVD, color, sound, 40", 2009
Artist Work, Mexico City - Romanian/American Artist Looking for Work
1h 30min performance in Zocalo, Mexico City (D. F.)
DV video on DVD, color, sound, 7 min, 2009
Pioneer, Tourism, Capital
series of 3 videos (synchronized projection)
DV video on DVD, 3’10” each, color, sound, 2009
Between [Experience] *
* part of an installation
HD video on DVD/Blu-ray, color, sound, 4’, 2009
The Faulty Plum Tree Story
HD video on DVD/Blu-ray, color, sound, 3’20”, 2008
The Last Daily Supper (1)
DV video on DVD, 3’, 2008
The Last Daily Supper (2)
DV video on DVD, 3’, 2008
Embarrassment *
* part of an installation
DV video on DVD, color, sound, 2’10”, 2009
The Re-Turn of Pacala
DV video on DVD, color, sound, 2’45”, 2008
Untitled (The Sleep Keeper is Always Quiet) *
* part of an installation
DV video on DVD, color, sound, 3’, 2008
Invisible Rain
DV video on DVD, B&W, sound, 2’10”, 2007
1969, The American-Romanian Fight for Love
video on DVD, color, sound, 1 min, 2006-2007
Untitled (Uncertain Story)
DV video on DVD, color, sound, 2’25”, 2006 (filmed May 2005)
Living is for Waiting (The Random Encounter)
DV video on DVD, color, sound, 4' 30", 2006
Acts of Contemplation or Regarding the Pain of Others
DV video on DVD, color, sound, 1' 8", 2006
In December of 1989, after a short trial and same-day execution in Targoviste, the dead bodies of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu were transported by helicopter to Bucharest. Their bodies were then deposited on a large field that was on Romanian Army property. That very field is located behind this building.
During the first night, the bodies were left unguarded due to fearful soldiers and lack of communication. Because of this situation, the members of the commando in charge of the transport were declared terrorists that night by the Army headquarters.
The bodies were found the next day in the same place by a different army commando whose mission was to take the bodies and bury them. After the bodies were taken from this field, all remained quiet.
Yet despite the silence there, many other Romanian people continued to be killed over the next few days by the 'unknown' terrorists.
Thank You Romania *
* part of a installation
720p HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 4' 12", 2010
Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Young Artist Praying
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 1' 44”, 2010
Clean Before, Rest After (Art)
DV Video on DVD, color & sound, 2' 10”, 2010
Night Watch
DV Video on DVD, color, sound, 2' 20, 2008
1 1/2 Dacia (O Dacia juma'/ One and half Dacia)
DV Video on DVD, color & sound, 3' 26, 2011
Dacia is a 'famous' Romanian automobile brand and also was a historic region in Central Europe. Here we have just another genuine related story/situation filmed on Bucharest streets in 2011.
X Pioneer *
* part of an installation
Video on DVD, color & sound, 3' 20”. 2010
ism (chair/man)
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 2' 52”, 2011
Uncertain Trip *
* part of a video installation
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 5' 26”, 200? (Edited 2010)
The Lost Pilgrim
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 2' 52”, 2011
Untitled (The Fortune Teller)
DV Video on DVD, color & sound, 18”, 2011
Open Playground (Occupy Land)
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 6' 30”, 2011
Candy & Suicide
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 5min, 2012
(Until The Right) Frame of Mind
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 50 sec. loop, 2012
The Alchemist
Video on DVD, color, sound, 2' 55", 2009
On the side of the street, a young man juggles a banner with the inscription ART. Personal performance or paid advertising!? The documentation of this fugitive encounter is filmed through a moving car window; this creates a filmic situation which unravels unexpectedly at a second view.
End of January in a Bucharest neighborhood. Every day, a man collects abandoned Christmas trees from the streets or from the garbage bins and brings them to the same empty/ unclaimed field between buildings, in order to… retransform them!? It is the take-over of a ‘dead’ public space and a ‘natural’ recycling which leaves a partially transformed urban space behind.
During a cold winter in a Bucharest neighborhood, in a deserted field surrounded by street dogs, and near a big church, a man processes an unknown object by fire.
Pacala is a character from Romanian folktales who usually finds himself in strange and comical situations but also one who shows how the disadvantaged in society can triumph by using their wits. Here we have a random encounter with a stranger carrying a discarded door who appears to have just stepped out of a modern day folktale. I followed and filmed him spontaneously. He was a natural performer and engaged instantly in a muted dialogue with the camera without any direction. At the end, his only words were, “Can Pacala go now?”
Out of Time
720p HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color, sound, 5'48", 2008/2009
Cel ce (des)face/ The Flag Liberator *
* part of an installation
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color&sound, 6'09", 2012
Freedom
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 2'58", 2012
RE-AL-I-TY
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 6'29", 2012
Mirare, Mirage, Mirror
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 1'45", 2012
Burning World *
* part of an installation
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 15 min, 2012
Untitled (Local Heroes) *
* 3 synchronized video projection [part of a video installation]
Working Class (Permanent Collection)
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 4'04", 2012
Terror, Fear, Angst *
* part of an installation
720p HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 4'25", 2012
Time Travels Slow
DV video on DVD, color, sound, 3min, 2009
Untitled (Inactivity) *
* 3 synchronized video projection [part of a video installation]
Dark Practice *
* part of an installation
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 4'17", 2013
Green Green Gras of Reality *
* part of an installation.
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 35 sec. loop on TV, 2013.
Silenced
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 3 min, 2013
Training
HD Video on DVD/Blu-ray, color & sound, 6'40", 2013
Bucharest-Vienna-Berlin, a ‘dream’ train trip, an ‘escape’ route in the cold war period, filmed now on a cold morning. Right after the Berlin Wall fell this dream started transforming from an ideal to an harsh economical reality. It also became a main cultural route for the east to get ‘exposed’ and ‘capitalized’ in the west. People from different social, economical or cultural backgrounds are still traveling this way towards the uncertainty of a better ’something’ or coming back to their families, roots or to ‘something’ they lost. The landscape looks out of time, almost unchanged for decades, and travels slow but irreversible like the faceless passenger’s destiny in our train. Europe is cold again.
Study for Loneliness
HD Video (on Blu-ray), color & sound, 4 min, 2015
Maternal Duty
HD Video (on Blu-ray), color & sound, 2’48”, 2016
Matter of Time
HD Video (on Blu-ray), color & sound, 2’48”, 2016
Adam’s Hand
HD Video (on Blu-ray), color & sound, 2’48”, 2016
Flag Raising
HD Video, color & sound, 4’10”, 2016
Public Release
HD Video, color & sound, 9’30”, 2016