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A.I. POETRIES OF FEMALE AND NON-FEMALE BEINGS IN GAS STATIONS AT NIGHT

Cristina Iliescu
Romania, 2022
18 min.

How should one closely navigate female and non-binary experience through virtual mediation? This experimental documentary casts a type of gaze that transcends the boundaries of concrete reality, looking for the human factor within generally accessible technologies.

Cristina Iliescu’s gaze brings life to one of the many contemporary urban voids – the roadside gas station, whose human hustle and bustle she breaks up into the discreet, funny, or rude gestures of uneventfulness. One can see a special attention to the pictoriality of the simple image, that photogénie of the digital darkness decomposed into pixels, but it can feel like much more. Filming with her phone from a safe distance, with an alert insistence on details, especially those of male presences, the filmmaker frames the effort of the non-male gaze to guard itself against the omnipresent danger in the patriarchal space. (Călin Boto, BIEFF 2022)

Data proiecție și locație

1st of October, 18:00, Cinemateca Eforie

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Cristina Iliescu

Cristina Iliescu is intrigued by hybrid cinema, experimental cinema, diary film, video poems and non-narrative structures. “A.I. Poetries of Female and Non-Female Beings in Gas Stations at Night” is the director’s debut short film. She graduated in Audiovisual Communication and Documentary Film Directing at UNATC Bucharest.

  • Technical sheet
  • EDITING: Cristina Iliescu
  • UPI: Dumitrana Lupu
  • CAMERA: Cristina Iliescu, Robert Bitay
  • SOUND MIX: Iulian Cristian Nunu
  • DCP: Ciprian Cimpoi

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