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