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ARCHIVAL STUDY (PORTRAITS)

Răzvan Anton
Romania, 2022
6 min.

Archival Study (Portraits) compiles digitised and edited 8mm footage shot mostly by the director’s father during the ‘70s and ‘80s. Overcoming the awkwardness of personal exposure through the methods of archival classification, Răzvan Anton proceeded with treating this material in a similar fashion to the public archive.

Experimental cinema is going through an acute frenzy of the first-person. Maybe that’s why now, more than ever, Răzvan Anton’s approach is downright fascinating. Hand-picking from his father’s 8mm archive, the artist keeps the many faces of home movies, relatives and friends and strangers of Anton, unknown to anyone else. Omitting dates (although edited chronologically), context, without its personal being political, but showing complete interest in sincere gestures as affective documents, Archival Study (Portraits) proves that the challenge of portrait painting has not yet been overcome: the re-personalization from a you – the subject of the painter – into a he, she, they, them of the spectator. (Călin Boto, BIEFF 2022)

Date and Location

1st of October, 18:00, Cinemateca Eforie

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Răzvan Anton

Răzvan Anton (b. 1980, Cluj) studied at the University of Art and Design in Cluj and Camberwell College of Arts London (MA Drawing). He has been teaching at the University of Art and Design Cluj since 2010 and was part of the Paintbrush Factory’s collective. He was involved in the Minerva Archive digital archiving project. He was artist-in-residence at the House next to the Synagogue (Mediaș) in the project Absence as Heritage, within TRACES between 2016-2018. Between 2019-2021 he co-curated the visual arts program of the Paintbrush Factory. He is currently part of the coordination team of the digital archiving project of the photo collection of Dolgozó Nő (Working Woman) magazine.

  • Technical sheet
  • EDITING: Răzvan Anton
  • FOOTAGE: Virgiliu Anton

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