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