27 June 2008
The White Night of Cultural Institutes
program proposed by the Goethe Institute Bucharest

MOLDOVA CAMPING

Timeline:

18h00 Film making in the Republic of Moldova – short presentation by Dumitru Marian (production director at OWH TV Studio)

19h00 Tent event with Pavel Braila – performance by video artist Pavel Braila (Chisinau/Berlin)

20h00 Generation Chisinau – the perspectives of film making in Moldova (this program has also been presented aty the Berlin Film Festival – balkan black box film, art, and culture in South-Eastern Europe)

- documentary: San Sanych / San Sanych
Director: George Agadjanean, 59 min, English subtitles, Moldova 2006
(DOK Leipzig 2006, Cottbus 2006, Jilava Festival 2007, Cronograf 2007)

- short movies:

Dying for Madrid

Director: Igor Cobileanski, 22 min, English subtitles, Moldova 1998

Cind se stinge lumina / When the Lights go out

Director: Igor Cobileanski, 8:20 min, English subtitles, Moldova 2006

MOLD_GOLIA, 60 min., English subtitles, Moldova (project in progress), Curator: Stefan Rusu (KSA:K, Chisinau)

16-20 June 2008 / Opening: Monday 16 June 19h00

Alina Popa & Irina Gheorghe

Poto&Cabengo

Work in progress

„Poto and Cabengo are two twins from South California who refuse to communicate with the people around them and invent a language of their own. The director Jean-Pierre Gorin makes in 1979 a documentary about them; the twins are eventually normalized through a learning process which deprives them not only of their imagination, but also of the fascination they had on the others.

This story was the starting point of a photographic investigation about the I-you relation which can become I-I, about the endless movement of the glance from one figure to the other. Poto&Cabengo is a series of staged double self-portraits in different places and situations, a way of telling personal and fictive stories in a certain location.

The discourse can follow different directions, it is an open script, whose presentation as a work in progress emphasizes not only the importance of the autonomous images, but also the possible narrative links among them.” (Alina Popa & Irina Gheorghe)