Victoria – an excerpt from a filmmaking methodology

We came to Victoria in order to understand the particular intimacies of the former ‘city of youth’. While our focus was mainly on the Cultural House, it soon became very obvious that there was a strong and complex connection between the Combinat (chemical plant), Cultural House and formal educational institutions (primary and secondary school, industrial high school). This project...

Irina Botea Bucan

Irina Botea Bucan (b. Ploiesti, Romania) has developed an artist-educator-researcher methodology that consistently questions dominant socio-political ideas and centralizes human agency as a vehicle for meaning . Performance, reenactment, simulated auditions, elements of direct cinema and cinéma vérité are combined in her artistic approach; negotiating and navigating the filmmaking process ...