Eight Postcards From Utopia

Program:

Forma

Year:

2024

Country:

Romania

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

71’

It is a found-footage documentary assembled exclusively out of post-socialist Romanian advertisements. In bringing together these documents of Romania's long transition period, they are made to speak about life, love and death, about the body and human frailty, about nature and the supernatural, about recent history, and, of course, about socialism and capitalism. This is a utopia of fresh-smelling laundry, floods of Pepsi and beer, and the chance to use money to make more money.

Schedule

Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Radu Jude

Christian Ferencz-Flatz is a philosopher, affiliated with the Alexandru Dragomir Institute for Philosophy in Bucharest. His research concerns phenomenology, critical theory, the philosophy of history as well as film and media philosophy. He has published numerous essays and research articles and translated into Romanian key theoretical works by Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer.

Radu Jude is a director and screenwriter. Several of his films, including AFERIM!, I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS, and UPPERCASE PRINT, won multiple awards worldwide. In 2021, BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale. His latest feature, DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD, won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival.

Filmography: Eight Postcards From Utopia (2024), Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (2023), Bad Luck Banging, or Loony Porn (2021), Uppercase Print (2020), I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018), Aferim! (2015)

Creative team

Director

Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Radu Jude

Screenplay

Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Radu Jude

Editing

Catalin Cristutiu

Sound Design

Ștefan Ruxandra

Producer

Alexandru Teodorescu

Production