On the Impossibility of an Homage
On the Impossibility of an Homage
dir. Xandra Popescu
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Romania, Germany
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2024
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19 min
Film presented in set: Block 2. Short Films
venue
date
time
available
Kinoteka, 2
2025-05-10
20:45
Iluzjon, Mała Czarna
2025-05-12
18:00
Iluzjon, Mała Czarna
2025-05-16
18:00
Ion Tugearu was a rockstar of Ballet in Communist Romania. He’s been dreaming that someday there’d be a film about him. But as things progress, he finds it hard to accept the director's approach…
Given a portrait, who is responsible for the image we see, the painter or the subject? Ion was a rockstar of Ballet in Communist Romania. When we discuss the possibility of a shooting, Ion is initially overjoyed. He’s been dreaming that someday there’d be a film about him. But as things progress, he finds it hard to accept my approach. He questions my ability to make the film happen.
The film is presented as part of the project Cinema as a Laboratory V co-founded by the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.
- duration:
- 19 min
- country / year of production:
- Romania, Germany / 2024
- director:
- Xandra Popescu
- cinematography:
- Pedro Bordaberry
- production:
- Ada Solomon, Xandra Popescu, Jonas Dornbach / microFILM
- selected festivals and awards:
- 2024 – Locarno IFF, 2024 – Singapore IFF, 2024 – FIPADOC Biarritz
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