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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Mihai Grecu

Mihai GRECU (1981, Romania) is an artist and filmmaker. He studied art and design in Romania and France, and continued his artistic research at the Fresnoy Studio of Contemporary Arts. Recurring topics such as environmental crisis, political allegories, new technologies and catastrophes articulate the whole of his exploration of mysterious and subconscious beginnings. These visual and poetic trips mix several techniques and may be seen as propositions for a new dream-oriented technology. Grecu’s work has been shown and awarded in numerous exhibitions and film festivals in Tribeca, Locarno, Rotterdam, Festival of New Cinema in Montreal and other places. Nicolae, world premiere at IFFR 2022, is a creative documentary in which the late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, who died in 1989, is recreated as a hologram and projected in today’s Romania.

Filmography

(all short) Metamorph 1 & 2 (2004), Ironman_Platz (2004), Freon (2004, co-dir), Tabun (2004), Sarin (2005), Soman (2005), Crawl (2005, co-dir), Osmium (2006), Lenin/Lennon (2006, co-dir), Orcaille (2006), Iridium (2006), Unlith (2007), Coagulate (2008), Centipede Sun (2010), We’ll Become Oil (2011), Glucose (2012), The Reflection of Power (2015), Saturnism (2020), Nicolae (2022, doc)

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Mihai Grecu at IFFR

  • Coagulate

    In this mysterious choreography of fluids, man and fish serve as sculptures, the last landmarks to behave according to the laws of nature as we know t

    • Bright Future: Tiger Awards Competition Short Films

  • Unlith

    Ominous, surrealist work with phenomenal digital effects about cold surroundings where men with dogs meet each other.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Glucose

    On the boundary between good taste and sensationalism, Grecu & Gleize take us along on a journey through their dreamy universe.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • Centipede Sun

    Through perfect command of his audiovisual techniques, Grecu literally creates a colossal geographic life form from nothing.

    • Tiger Awards Short Film Competition

  • Nicolae

    The late dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, who died in 1989, resurrects in 2021 as a hologram to address the contemporary inhabitants of a small Romanian village. What happens next is captured in a hybrid documentary, observing the effects this unusual encounter has on the people involved, many of whom are first-hand witnesses of Ceaușescu’s rule. Mihai […]

    • Short & Mid-length