RAWMANIA

The Romanian landscape views with local peculiarities introduces the setting and the moment: a few days before the winter celebration.
The time, the frame, the characters, were chosen in order to show the ritual of preparing the pig meat as part of normal practice in their daily life. Everything you see is an extract of real life during one week of living with locals and learning form them, step by step.
a short documentary of frames directly from the eyes of the observer, a collection of breaths, slow moments of synchronisation whit the special encounters, lights and landscapes; a land of dogs, wildness. Rawness is everywhere, in and out. the feelings are changing way of being pursued and perceived.

  • Giacomo Cardoni
    Director
    Director
  • Bogdan Hanganu
    Director
    Location Manager
  • Sanne Verbruggen
    Director
    Camera assistant
  • Giacomo Cardoni
    Writer
    director
  • GIACOARDO
    Producer
    production
  • Hanganu's Family
    Key Cast
    the surrounding people
  • Florin
    Key Cast
    the pig maker
  • Sanne Verbruggen
    Editing advisor
    suport in editing
  • Bogdan Hanganu
    Resourse Managment and Setting
    local management
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    13 minutes 6 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 9, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    880 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Romania
  • Language:
    Romanian
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • public trial-screening in the cinema of OT301
    Amsterdam
    Netherlands
  • Selection for "DOC Shorts Film Festival"
    Rome
    Italy
    April 28, 2017
    DOC film festival
Distribution Information
  • GIACOARDO
    Country: Netherlands
    Rights: Video on Demand
Director Biography - Giacomo Cardoni, Bogdan Hanganu, Sanne Verbruggen

this is the first time I fell sharing one my experience with the most, choosing the short documentary time/frame typology in order to fits all my experiences which are really immersive. During personal researches related also to other artistic fields I decided to start filming with simple devices, willing to have material to work on a multi-sensorial restitution. Being an artist that work with visuals, installation and performances, producing videos became a necessity. Especially considering the topic of the study: Contemporary Ritual

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Director Statement

...So, he sees the whole process of life as a potentially infinite invitation to re-learn what it means to be human, how we can be connected and at the same time shape a stratification of peculiarities among us. How can it be re-presented in an accessible and sharable way?

His thoughts are born out of that curiosity, that became the passion, so his observations, his dystopic or utopic visions and architectures develop into shapes.
He tries to connect them and build temporary relations through cultural experiences and deal with one-to-one performances as a practice; but also using drawings as patterns for rituals, in relation with the place and the stories of its inhabitants.