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CUTTING HAND

Alexandra Tatar
Austria/Romania, 2022
32 min.

This video, both diaristic as well as essayistic, has to do with two tired women, mother and daughter, eating together after work. The manipulated images of monotonously picturesque landscapes interrupt the flow of the quotidian drama in the seasonal workers’ daily  lives.

The practice of video diaries counts among those non-fictional practices that local cinephilia, however enthusiastic it may be, has mostly come to know through imports. Spending autumn in an Austrian suburb, filmmaker Alexandra Tatar creates something that is all the more special. Recognizing herself as an outsider to her mother’s social world, that of seasonal fruit pickers, the film complements the moments of warmth and cheer of family time with a coldly lucid critique of the precarious condition in which these workers, the dehumanized people of capitalism, find themselves from one season to another. The metallic sound of the scissors, inhuman, yet so human, works as a perfect refrain for the theoretical notes jotted down by the cutting and filming hand. (Călin Boto, BIEFF 2022)

Date and Location

1st of October, 21:00, Cinemateca Eforie

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Alexandra Tatar

Alexandra Tatar (b. 1989, Dej) has been living and working in Vienna since 2011. She studied with Francis Ruyter, Daniel Richter and Ashley Hans Scheirl at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and she studied painting at the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca. In her work, she deals with processes of becoming, expanding onto objects and other non-human beings, seen as an extended geography of subjectivity. Her work has been exhibited at MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (RO), FLUCA – Austrian Cultural Pavilion Plovdiv (BG), VBKÖ (AT) and at the Vienna Art Week, amongst others. “Cutting hand” is the artist’s filmographic debut.

  • Technical sheet
  • CAST: Mihaela Tatar, Alexandra Tatar
  • VOICES: Camelia Tatar, Aurelia Tatar, Florin Trip
  • CAMERA/CAMERA EDITING/SOUND RECORDING/TEXT: Alexandra Tatar
  • RE-RECORDING MIXER: Rudolf Pototschnig
  • FUNDED BY: The Republic of Austria Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, kültüř gemma!

 

 

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