Modern Romanian Cinema or Modernity and Modernism Unfinished Doru POP Abstract: As this issue of Ekphrasis is dedicated to an in-depth discussion about contemporary Romanian cinema, from the perspective of contextualizing notions like modern, modernism, modernist, modernistic and even more broadly, modernity, the main hypothesis of this contribution is that modernism remains a... Read More Keywords: metaphysics, modern cinema, modernist, modernity, modernism, Romanian cinema |
Ira JAFFE Abstract: Along with Olivier Assayas of France, Cristian Mungiu was named Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. Mungiu’s award, for directing Graduation, was not his first—4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days had won the Palme d’Or in 2007, and Beyond the Hills had wo... Read More Keywords: Cristian Mungiu, neorealism, time, slow cinema, long take, André Bazin, chaos |
Adrian MIOC Abstract: This article examines two important cinematic works by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu. The analysis of Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days (2007) and Beyond The Hills (2012) features a historical perspective that emphasizes how a political context is able to affect the health of the f... Read More Keywords: biopolitics, crisis, ideology, Cristian Mungiu, state and power |
The Powers of the False in Romanian Cinema. The case of Police, Adjective and Aurora Cezar GHEORGHE Abstract: The issue of real time in recent Romanian Cinema has been attributed to a belief in a type of realism of cinematic representation inspired by the film ontology of André Bazin. This study examines the use of continuous space-time in the surveillance sequences of Police, Adjective (2009) and t... Read More Keywords: Romanian cinema, Time-Image, the Powers of the false, surveillance, panopticon |
Flaneurish Mechanical Eye Seeking Physical Reality Ebrahim BARZEGAR Abstract: This paper is intended to explore Radu Jude’s camera dexterity in first part of Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021), by using Siegfried Kracauer’s idea of realism based on physical reality and with the help of Walter Benjamin’s notion of flaneur which he developed out of Charles... Read More Keywords: camera dexterity, Siegfried Kracauer, Physical Reality, Walter Benjamin, Flaneur |
The Aesthetics of Discomfort in Cristi Puiu’s Aurora Ion INDOLEAN Abstract: This paper discusses the spectator’s discomfort triggered by Cristi Puiu’s film Aurora. In 2010, when it was launched, the film stirred heated controversy between those who labelled it as masterpiece and those who were bothered by the dreariness contemplated by the Romanian filmmaker. S... Read More Keywords: Cristi Puiu, Romanian New Wave Cinema, Realism, Aurora, 2010, Discomfort, Audience Reception Studies, Observational Cinema, Hyperrealism |
Looking beyond the margins. Thomas Ciulei and the modernist narrative practices Mihai DRAGOLEA Abstract: This article explores Thomas Ciulei’s feature documentary films This is it (Asta e, 2001) and The Flower Bridge (Podul de flori, 2008). It analyses how the director uses diverse documentary styles and various narrative practices in order to explore the character&rsq... Read More Keywords: art cinema narration, parametric narration, pictorialism, observational documentary, precariat, Romanian transition, modernism |
Larisa PRODAN Abstract: Review of Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen, László Strausz. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, Keywords: Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen, László Strausz, Palgrave Macmillan |
Can Cinema Think Ouside the Screen? Mihai DRAGOLEA Abstract: Review of Romanian Cinema: Thinking Outside the Screen, Doru Pop. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 Read MoreKeywords: Romanian Cinema: Thinking Outside the Screen, Doru Pop, Bloomsbury Academic |
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