Andrei was admitted in Film School UNATC in 2000 where, after a few exercises made his first film, a 15 minute documentary about people that die without having identity papers on them, and how the system treats them. After that he started working in cinema, as assistant director and script supervisor, thus being expelled from school. Traveled two years through Europe working various little jobs to eat and live.
Returned in Romania in 2008, a started a series of short experimental documentaries about life as it is, in an aerie key. Interior Skies, about a big lake without water inside Bucharest. Returning, about a revered trip during the night through little streets on Tibetan music. Triaj about train life and atmosphere on tracks. Minus about a very cold day in the winter, where everything was dreamlike and on the border of a very beautiful death.
Working again in Cinema, first as an extra then doing props and again script supervisor, writes screenplays for short and feature films, and in 2012 after completing a weird psychedelic script called Thraum, a fascinating and thrilling weird screenplay, finds people to make a simple no budget film called Sleep Awake and in the same year does a video performance film of 30 minutes called MENO, with dancers and Butoh dance in a ruin filled with plants and burned structures.
From 2013 to 2015 he looks for funds for his first feature film Linear A, and during this time he writes several other feature films, YCA, Apologia. And in 2015 he manages to make the film #Beings with the help of his friends, in Berlin.
Then begins looking for resources for the third film in the Trilogy of the Body – Sleep Awake, Beings, Obscur. But he fails.
From 2016 to 2018 he makes a few experimental films and video art - Alas, NYX, Left, Lament, Ambrosia - based more on the art performance area. All launched online and at small international exhibitions of performance art and video installation.
In 2020, with the help of Scharf Film, he manages to make the film Paradise Lula. His first project in a comic, surreal and absurdist genre. Bringing a style as that of Kaurismaki, as a film critic said, between comedy and tragedy, but with a lot of hope, love and humanity.
Short Filmography (director):
“Alas” short experimental 2016 - independent
“#Beings” drama 2015 - independent
“Sleep Awake” drama 2012 - independent
“MENO” video performance 2012 - independent
“ALCALIN” short experimental 2010 - independent
“Minus” documentary experimental 2010 - independent
“Interiour Skies” documentary experimental 2008 - independent
“No Man’s Land” documentary experimental 2008 - independent
“Returning” documentary experimental 2008 - independent
“Acts” documentary experimental 2008 - independent
“Neidentificat” documentary short 2003 – UNATC film school