Dacia, mon amour

In this film, I explore and delve into themes such as post-memory, anti-archives, deconstruction, as well as docu-fiction, experimenting with color, sound, classical filming techniques, and digital video montage techniques. At the intersection of these themes, the project outlines a journey from its beginning, where the image represents local urban spaces and is accompanied by a narrative text, to its second half, where the image transforms into documents from personal family archives, constructing a documentary fiction. The journey marks the description of the Dacia car, a national symbol of patriotism and the totalitarian system in which times it was built, to the journey into an imaginary space where the only characters exist in the form of photographic representation. The Dacia car constitutes a pseudo-memory passed down,
emotionally from generation to generation, about which I relate in a manner akin to an advertisement, based only on the few remaining ad materials about it. Thus, from the perspective of a person born post-revolution, I construct an imaginary story, a docu-fiction, deconstructing and reconstructing symbols, both national and personal, to highlight the perspective towards the environment of influence in which I grew up. I analyze the temporal propagation in the family tree as well as the stage of personal comprehension regarding photography as memory and photography as a memento. While the path, followed in the work, is one with personal undertones, the narrative voice refers to a national consciousness, cumulated, and intuitively leaning through the environment towards a descendant.

Link to video: https://youtu.be/1u8j-mxzDGU

Project exhibited in:
Be the outside looking in, personal exhibition, Iasi, Romania, 2021
Intersection, Coruna, Spain, 2020