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LOST FOOTAGE

Adrian Țofei
Romania/Turkey, 2022
12 min.

How would a found footage film look like if the footage were never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of cinema while serving as an ironic tribute to the found footage horror and its specific pop culture.

There is a great temptation to make room for Adrian Țofei in the white cube of some contemporary art museum. And also somewhat fair, because his game of infinities, 666 seconds of a lost and unfound footage, could be compared to Andy Warhol directing the apocalypse. John Cage, Yves Klein, Fluxus and so many other precedents are waiting to theoretically ennoble an experiment such as Lost Footage. But it was not the white cube that made such a film possible, but that insatiable cinephilia surrounding horror cinema, for which darkness is the continuous trope. (Călin Boto, BIEFF 2022)

Data proiecție și locație

1st of October, 21:00, Cinemateca Eforie

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Adrian Țofei

Adrian Țofei is a filmmaker and actor best known for his debut horror feature Be My Cat: A Film for Anne and his upcoming apocalyptic feature We Put the World to Sleep. He directed, produced, wrote and starred in Be My Cat, which premiered in 2015 at Fantasporto, traveled the festival circuit, being ultimately released by Terror Films in 2018, and has since attracted a cult following. He has been married to actress Duru Yücel since 2017, and they have also become partners on screen in the upcoming We Put the World to Sleep, an international co-production 7 years in the making and Adrian’s most ambitious project to date.

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