[artinfo] BUCHAREST FILM BIENNALE 1 announces the director

[Pavilion]

BUCHAREST FILM BIENNALE ANNOUNCES THE DIRECTOR & 
THE CURATOR FOR THE FIRST EDITION

September 12, 2014 - The 1st BUCHAREST FILM 
BIENNALE (Bucharest International Biennial for 
Film), generated by Pavilion - journal for 
politics & culture - is set for May 21st - May 
24th, 2015, under the directorship and 
curatorship of Andrei Rus (RO).

BUCHAREST FILM BIENNALE will be a unique project 
in the film area trough the way of selection and 
curatorial concept, but also a different way of 
presenting the films.

The BUCHAREST FILM BIENNALE promotes awareness 
and dissemination of the culture - particularly 
in the field of film - by means of exchanges and 
cultural cooperation within Europe and beyond and 
is looking for strategies that would develop 
mutual understanding and offer insights from 
different perspectives.

Through its programs, the BFB seeks to discover, 
support, and inspire film directors, actors and 
technicians from Romania and around the world, 
and to introduce audiences to their work.

BFB is an organization devoted to showcasing the 
best and brightest films from Romania and around 
the globe in new way with a different viewing 
experience in alternative places all around 
Bucharest.

The BUCHAREST FILM BIENNALE is the forum for film 
in one of the most attractive cities for art in 
East-Europe. Taking place every other year at 
changing locations throughout Bucharest it is 
shaped by the different concepts of curators 
appointed to enter into a dialogue with the city, 
its general public, the people interested in film 
as a form of art as well as the film artists of 
this world.

The BFB is an attempt to turn these scripted 
"experiences" upside down, to re-think and 
re-imagine processes of domination, while 
positioning the city of Bucharest as a field of 
cultural action and exchange.

The advisory board of the BFB include critics, 
theoreticians, artists and directors from 
different parts of the world: Sorin Boto?a˜neanu, 
Arantxa Etcheverria, Andrei Ujica˜, Corneliu 
Porumboiu, Jean-Pierre Rehm, Bettina Steinbrügge 
?i Gerwin Tamsmas.

"I propose for this first edition of the 
BUCHAREST FILM BIENNALE to present the public a 
part of cinematography that is very rarely 
experimented with by filmmakers and specialists 
alike: the diary film, in as many of its 
manifestations as possible.", said Andrei Rus, 
the curator of BFB1. "My wish is that the 
selection for the biennial will be able to offer 
a perspective on contemporary diary films and 
also present, as much as possible, a history of 
this cinematic style, from which so many of 
today's anonymous or public personalities YouTube 
Channels come from, most of them from different 
backgrounds and fields.
Also, I hope that this curatorial theme will 
spark discussion about the interference between 
cinema and the contemporary arts - another 
subject which is neglected in the Romanian 
cultural sphere."

BUCHAREST FILM BIENNALE is a project by PAVILION, 
a non-profit organization founded in 1999, 
dedicated to the discovery and development of 
artists and audiences.

Andrei Rus (29 y.o) is a lecturer at the Faculty 
of Film of the National University of Theatre and 
Film Bucharest, where he teaches film theory and 
history and where he is also doing research for 
his doctoral studies about diary films. He 
coordinates "Film Menu", a cinematography 
magazine, in the frame of the University and 
organizes together with his editorial staff 
frequent film screening in the screening room of 
the Faculty of Film. He was a programmer for 
festivals in Romania such as "Timishort" and 
"NexT". He was a juror at several film festivals 
such as "Revelation France 4", in the frame of 
the "Semaine de la critique" (Cannes 2014) 
section, the 2013 edition of BIEFF (Bucharest) 
and the "Emile Cantillon" section of the Namur 
International Film Festival (Belgium, 2008). 
Lives and works in Bucharest.

The BUCHAREST FILM BIENNALE is founded by Ra˜zvan Ion & Eugen Ra˜descu.


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This is a project by PAVILION - journal for politics and culture.
www.pavilionjournal.org

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PAVILION, BUCHAREST BIENNALE, BUCHAREST FILM 
BIENNALE, FREE ACADEMY, REFORMA and PAVILION 
CENTER are projects devised and founded by 
Ra˜zvan Ion and Eugen Ra˜descu.

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