Completed - ROMANIAN - Documentary - 71 minutes
Eight Postcards from Utopia, a found-footage documentary, weaves post-socialist Romanian ads into a narrative on life, love, death, human frailty, nature, the supernatural, and the historical transition. A film between found poetry, outdated encyclopedias, trash art, and Summa theologiae.
Year of production : 2024 Director(s) : Radu JUDE, Christian FERENCZ-FLATZ Producer(s) : Alexandru TEODORESCU (SAGA FILM (ROMANIA))
Eight Postcards from Utopia is a found-footage documentary assembled exclusively out of post-socialist Romanian advertisements.Drawing from the debris of Romania’s long transition period, the film speaks about love and death, the human body and its frailty, the natural and the supernatural and of course, socialism and capitalism.Bouncing between found poetry and an outdated encyclopedia, between trash art and Summa theologiae, EIGHT POSTCARDS sees Radu Jude teaming up with philosopher Christian Ferencz-Flatz to make another hilarious and unforgiving take down of meta capitalist mythology.
Country(ies) : ROMANIA
BFI London FF 2024Locarno 2024 (Fuori Concorso)