Irina Botea

Film Postale, 2013, 33min, color, 16mm
un film de Irina Botea si Nicu Ilfoveanu

proiectie la Modern > sambata, 15 iunie 2013, la ora 5.30 PM > apoi discutii

Cercetand modul in care imaginatia este initiata si sustinuta in interiorul institutiilor muzeale astazi, "Film Postale" alege sa medieze trei case memoriale, Castelul Iulia Hasdeu, Memorialul Balcescu si Casa Stork. Cele trei muzee, fictiuni ce propun suspendarea in timp si se opun procesului firesc de ruinizare, sunt in mod continuu la randul lor mediate de custozi. Acestia se adreseaza vizitatorilor intr-un context public special, care mentine naratiunea unui spatiu privat, intim, ce a fost locuit. Fiecare din cele trei capitole ale filmului portretizeaza contextul fiecarei case prin arhivarea fragmentelor din discursuri intrerupte, repetate, care evadeaza cateodata din conformismul sincronului. Portretizarea contextelor caselor se transforma progresiv in film in portrete ale custozilor, mediatorilor acestor muzee.

Film Postale a fost comisionat pentru expozitia: "Centru de Reflectie pentru Istorii Suspendate: O Incercare", prezentat la cea de-a 55-a editie a Bienalei de Arta de la Venetia; curator Anca Mihulet; artisti: Apparatus 22, Irina Botea & Nicu Ilfoveanu, Karolina Bregula, Adi Matei, Olivia Mihaltianu, Sebastian Moldovan.

cu:
Dragos - Castelul Iulia Hasdeu
Valentin - Memorialul Balcescu
Florentina - Casa Storck

post productie sunet:
Mathew Paul Jinks

subtitrare:
Sorina Tomuletiu
Maria Farcas

multumiri speciale:
Liviana Dan, Anca Mihulet, Razvan Botea, Gregg Bordowitz, Nadav Avruch, Lisa Wainwright, Mathew Paul Jinks, Matthias Reagan, Daniel Quiles, Faith Wilding, Geoffrey Alan Rhodes, Fred Mecklenburg
Mirela and Gene Tanta, familia Draghici, Maria Farcas, Sorina Tomuletiu, Jenica Tabacu, Nicolae Banica-Ologu, Calin, Kodak Cine Lab

Film Postale, 2013, 33min, color, 16mm

A film on memorial houses
On touristic remembrance,
On guiding. On the uncanny and the profane,
On swinging right&left.
A blend of Flusser and Bachelard
referencing directly the last Goddard.
Cinéma étirév.

Looking into how the imagination is ignited and sustained in museums today, "Film Postale" chooses to mediate three memorial houses: Castelul Iulia Hasdeu, Memorialul Balcescu and Casa Stork. The three museums, fictionalized "anti-ruins", are continuously being re-mediated by the custodians that address the visitors in a public context that keeps the narrative of a private, intimate space, once inhabited. Each of the three chapters of the film portrays the context of the houses as an archive of discontinued, interrupted, out-of-sync reenacted speeches, and the portraits of the contexts slide into becoming the portrait of the mediators, custodians of the houses.

Film Postale was commissioned for the exhibition "Reflection Center for Suspended Histories: an attempt" one of the projects representing Romania at the Venice Biennial 2013. Curator Anca Mihulet. Artists: Apparatus 22, Irina Botea & Nicu Ilfoveanu, Karolina Bregula, Adi Matei, Olivia Mihaltianu, Sebastian Moldovan.