EXPRESSIONS

film

2021 EMPIRIC - writer/director (15' fiction, Romania)

2019 GOVERNMENT OF CHILDREN 3D dir. Ioana Mischie - (120', Romania) - creative producer, UPM

2017  STEPS dir. Anastazja Wiktoria Dabrowska – (14’ documentary, Serbia/Poland) – director of photography

ALL YOU LONELY PEOPLE, ALL YOU LOVELY BEINGS dir. Arjuna Jayawardena (28' fiction, USA) - d.o.p.

WHEN THE GAME GOES TO HAVEN (10’ fiction, USA) - writer/director

AN AMERICAN FAMILY dir. Kieu Anh Pan Truong (19' fiction, USA/Viet Nam) - producer

STATES UPROOTED – (15’ performative documentary, RO/USA) - filmmaker

2016 COLLINS 70’s (10' experimental documentary, USA) - filmmaker

THE DEVIL COMPLEX dir. Mark Evans (80' fiction, UK/RO) - cinematographer

2015 LITTLE FATHER (8’ fiction, USA) - director, director of photography, scriptwriter

THE OTHER LIFE OF CHARON (40’ documentary, RO/USA) - director, director of photography

2014 TEMPO (13' experimental, RO/USA) - filmmaker

2013 WHY IS RAINING WITH SUN? dir. Andrada Botezatu (12’ fiction, RO) - cinematographer

BRICK IN THE WALL dir. Gregory Brzozowsky (23’ documentary RO/POL) - cinematographer

THE FIRST ROMANIAN TRANS-AFRICAN EXPEDITION dir. Xantus Gabor (52’ tv documentary, 16mm& HD, RO)- editor, graphic designer

AS YOU LIKE IT dir. Paula Onet (22’/documentary/RO) - image assistant, making of

2012 SUPERMAN, SPIDERMAN OR BATMAN dir. Tudor Giurgiu (11’ fiction, RO) - assistant director

2011 ANOTHER CHRISTMAS dir. Tudor Giurgiu (10’ fiction, RO) - assistant director


video-performance

2021 RITUALS OF A CALL CENTRE CALLER - 2' 20''/

2020 BODY OF WORK - 3' /

2018 SKINCRAKS - 3’/ collaboration with Hillevi Duus

2016 DECONTEXT XXX - 12’

SETTING GLASS ADRIFT - 8’/ collaboration with Salome Kokoladze

III - 4’21’’/ collaboration with Kieu Anh Truong, Yueying Feng

ANTI-DEFENSE - 10’/

3 FIGHT STRUCTURE - 30’/

SHADOW DANCE - 3’20’’ super 8 mm/ collaboration with Sean D.-Henry Smith

2015 SELF-ILLUSION - 2’53’’/

POR AHORA SOY INVIERNO - 3’20’’/

2014 CRAFTED - 3’03’’/


performance

2017 USA VS... collaboration with Sarah Culkin and Stacey Cann, Hibernaculum Pop-up Show The Works Art Society, Alberta, Canada (installation/performance, mixed-media)

2016 IDLENESS LABOURITORY.ATTUNING (24h sound performance) collaboration with Douglas, M., Preston,J., Barrow, K., Farrenkopf, J, Huang, K., Miller, T., Spitzner; Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse, NY

2015 FARM FRESH (solo) Comstock Art Facility, Syracuse, NY

BOX/BOX (solo) Comstock Art Facility, Syracuse, NY


installation

2021 LIFELIKE: 93 jahre alt (mixed media), collaboration with Pablo Ramirez Gonzalez

2020 CORIDOR NESIGUR (audio-video installation) 

2016  VIOLENCE I WOMEN (video projection, mixed-media)

MILK USAGE STATION (mixed-media) collaboration with Rohan Thakore, Lily Fein



EXHIBITIONS

group shows

2021 GESTURES OF CARE, White Cuib Gallery, Cluj, Romania

IT WAS, IT IS, IT WILL BE. IN PROCESS, Morawa Palace, Poland; Za Szklem Gallery,  and Entropia Gallery, Wrocław, Poland

PROGRES 2.0 ateliers S.T.P.T., Timișoara, Romania

2020 PARADIGMS SHIFTS, ateliers S.T.P.T., Timișoara, Romania

VREME 244’33’’ – IVA.lab, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia

2019 RESTLESS IMAGE, UNRESOLVED GAZE, Gallery Podroom, Belgrade, Serbia

2018 REPRESENTATIONS, INTERRUPTED, Mejan Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

ROMANIAN DESIGN WEEK,  The Institute/The Point Bucharest, Romania

ART FACTORY 4, Faur Poarta 1, Bucharest Romania 

2017 20th INTERNATIONAL OPEN, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

HIBERNACULUM, The Works Visual Arts Society, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

LET’S BE DRAGONS - MFA SHOW, Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY  &  ArtHelix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016 SPARK PERFORMANCE VOL. 7 – Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY

GIRL ON GIRL:SPACE zine – Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY

2015 WHEN THE WORLD SLEEPS –  Spark ContemporaryArt Space, Syracuse, NY

EATING IS A CULTURAL ACT: Notes of Rhizomes, Deserts and Ugly Fruit

GIRL ON GIRL: Generation XX - SparkContemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY

EDUCATION

2018   

post-MA, Critical Images: Dignity and Representation - Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden 

 2017    

MFA in Film and Video Production - Syracuse University, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse, NY, USA  

2015   

MA in Documentary Filmmaking - Babeș- Bolyai University, Theatre and Television Faculty, Cluj Napoca, Romania 

2014    

Choreography, Contemporary Dance Department - T. Jarda School of Arts, Cluj Napoca, Romania 

2012    

BA in Image for Film and TV - Cinematography, Photography and Media Department, Babeș-Bolyai University, Theatre and Television Faculty, Cluj Napoca, Romania


GRANTS/AWARDS

2021 ERSTE Foundation Fellowship, Austria

2020 Pitch Award Culturepreneurs, Cluj, Romania

2018  Fine Acts Fellowship, Art+Tech Hackathon, Sofia, Bulgaria

2017  Urboteca Fellowship Programme, Bucharest, Romania

Creative Opportunity Grant, Syracuse University, NY

2016  Teaching Assistant Award, Syracuse University, NY

League of Romanian Students Abroad, Nomination Special Award in the Arts

2014  Fulbright Junior Grantee Romania/USA 


PROGRAMS/RESIDENCIES

2021 Salzburg Summer Academy, ruangrupa course, Austria

Mind and Life Summer Research Institute, USA

2020-21 Culturepreneurs, Cluj Cultural Center, Romania 

EDU-ART course of contemporary art and curating, Republic of Moldova

2019 Eso Doc  Social Documentary Module Training, Norway, South Tyrol, Lithuania

Torino Film Lab Documentary Extended – Torino, Italy

Sarajevo Talents –  Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina

2018 Reijkavik Talent Lab – Reijkavik Film Festival, Iceland

Pride X Power Lab, Sofia Pride Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria

Fashion Film Lab, Bucharest Fashion Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania

2017  Pustink Scriptwriters Residency, Port Cetate, Dolj, Romania

Interdoc Documentary Film Campus, Film TEET, Belgrade, Serbia

InfiniTIFF, Virtual Reality Workshop, TIFF, Romania

2016 International Filmmaking Academy, Bologna, Italy

Portfolio Weekend, WARP Contemporary Art Space and Frans Masereel Center, Antwerp, Belgium

2015 Closing the Gap Professional Practices for Women in the Arts, Clayton Island, NY

Fulbright Enrichment Seminar, Philadelphia, PA

2013 VerzioDoc Lab, Human Rights Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary

Inspiration Forum, Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic

Aristoteles Workshop by Dan Nuțu & Arte France, Suceava, Romania

FEST Training Ground/Pitching Forum, FEST Film Festival, Portugal

Transylvania Talent Lab, TIFF Cluj Napoca, Romania


FESTIVALS/SCREENINGS

2022

  • European Short Film Festival of Bordeaux, France
  • Short Film Breaks - touring NGO sector and local communities in Nepal, Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania, Romania, Senegal and Guatemala

2021

  • SCAD Savannah Film Festival, USA
  • Holly Shorts Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA
  • Indy Shorts Film Festival, Indiana, USA
  • Kitzbühel Filmfestival, Austria 
  • Anonimul International Film Festival, Sfântul Gheorghe, Romania
  • Noaptea Albă a Filmului Românesc, Bucharest, Romania

2019

  • Girls on Film, National University of Cinematic Arts, Bucharest, Romania 
  • Society for Photographic Education Media Festival, Cleveland, OH, USA 

2018

  • Altered Estetics, USA
  • The Unstitute, Un[dis]criminate (site 2) - online platform
  • Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, Romania - Best Romanian Film Award
  • BIEFF - Romanian Cinematic Experiments, Bucharest, Romania
  • Media Art Festival, Arad, Romania
  • Balkans Beyond Borders, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Filmul de Piatra, Piatra Neamț, Romania
  • Spune pe scurt, Romania
  • Contemporary Art Festival VideoPark, Uzice, Serbia,
  • A4Activism part of Romanian Design Week, Bucharest, Romania

2017

  • AVIFF Cannes Art Film Festival Catalogue, France
  • Access Code Film Festival, India
  • Filmmette Film Festival, New York, USA

2016

  • Golden Apricot International Film Festival, Armenia 
  • Tres Court Film Festival, Cluj, Romania
  • Video Art, Oradea, Romania
  • Film Lux Fest, Luxembourg
  • Videocontainer, Milano, Italy
  • China Women Film Festival, 14th Vision Youth Awards, China
  • Avant Edge Film Festival, Chicago, USA
  • Toamna la Voroneț, Voroneț, Romania
  • Docu Art, Bucharest, Romania
  • Newark Film Festival, New Jersey, USA
  • TIF Video Challenge, Cyprus
  • Balkans Beyond Borders “Tagged in a changing world” Sofia, Bulgaria
  • European Film Festival (mainstream&underground), Moscow, Russia
  • Sudan International Film Festival, Sudan
  • Socially Relevant Film Festival, NY, USA

2015

  • Gopo Awards, Bucharest, Romania 
  • Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Cannes Film Festival, Romanian Short Waves Program, France
  • Euroshorts, Short Film Festival, Warsow, Poland
  • Les Films de Cannes a Bucarest, Romania
  • Les Courts de Cannes a Chișinău, Republic of Moldova
  • Cinemawomen Biannual, Berlin, Germany 
  • FFest, Cluj Napoca, Romania
  • Republica Moldova TV screening
  • Filmul de Piatra, Romania 
  • Syracuse International Film Festival, New filmmakers showcase, NY; USA
  • Flux Short Film Festival, Minneapolis, USA

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