Shot Reverse Shot
Radu Jude, Adrian Cioflâncă
Between 1985 and 1987, American journalist Edward Serotta photographed communist Romania, unaware that the Securitate secret police were secretly photographing him in turn. Forty years later, Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă bring the two photographic archives together, creating a strange and ironic dialogue between the gazes of the observer and the observed. The film explores historical memory, surveillance, and the question of whether it is ever possible to construct an objective picture of the past.
The three shorts in the Viewfinder section will be screened together:
Shot Reverse Shot
Swan Lake
Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon
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Directors
Radu Jude is one of Romania’s leading contemporary filmmakers, known for combining historical research, archival material and dark humour in both fiction and documentary. His films include The Dead Nation, Uppercase Print and Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World.
Adrian Cioflâncă is a historian specializing in the Holocaust, communism and political violence; he has collaborated with Radu Jude on several archival documentaries.
