Before a National Anthem (How Do You Compose a National Anthem Today?)
The film attempts to analyse and exhaust the model of a national anthem through engaging with its historic form and content. Writers and musicians, people in a variety of different public spaces in Romania, were asked: How do you compose a national anthem today? A collage text was then assembled, and new music composed.
Also in this combined programme
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It Is a Matter of Learning Hope
The film presents a performance in which the artist Ileana Faur is consistently learning and rehearsing how to deliver fragments of written utopian
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Film Postale – First Chapter
After the early death of his daughter Iulia Hasdeu, her father built her a castle, claiming that she had provided the plans for this during spiritu
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Phalanstere
A local history teacher discusses the phalanstere, a social community experiment, at the town’s cultural centre and at the void which previou
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We, in the Year 2000
We, in the Year 2000 deconstructs a 1970s childhood propaganda song, which was written to ‘announce’ the prospect of a brighter socialist future in
Film details
- Country of production
- Romania
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 11"
- Medium/Format
- File
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