Sinking About You

A short star dusty love poem.

  • Laura Iancu
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    1 minute 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 5, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Laura Iancu

Short Bio

Laura Iancu is a visual artist working primarily in non-fiction & experimental video forms, with an expanded practice of 3D animation and immersive video game design. After studying Fine Art Pedagogy at Ovidius University on the Romanian shore of the Black Sea she traveled to the US and received an MFA in Photography and another in Cinematic Arts from the University of Iowa. Currently she teaches film production classes as Assistant Professor in the Cinema Program at the School of Performing Arts, Virginia Tech.She is foremost concerned with the impulses behind the digital conservation of matter (an archival tendency) and the technologies that underwrite aspects of digital translation and mediation. Her practice draws from poetry, object-oriented philosophy and video games.

Long Bio

Laura Iancu is a visual artist working primarily in non-fiction & experimental video forms, with an expanded practice of 3D animation and immersive video game design. After studying Fine Art Pedagogy at Ovidius University on the Romanian shore of the Black Sea she traveled to the US and received an MFA in Photography and another in Cinematic Arts from the University of Iowa. Currently she teaches film production classes as Assistant Professor in the Cinema Program at the School of Performing Arts, Virginia Tech.

Her work blends aspects of sound art, poetry, magic realism, pop/internet culture, gaming, gardening and the myriad mutations of contemporary technology. Formally it ranges between traditional observational documentaries, such as Birthtree- a feature length film about the isolated village of her paternal grandparents- to the abstract&non-linear: Rattle, Fever, Manilla Folder, Self(ie;), Minerals and Buttercups, Transmissions, Faster, Sinking About You, Leave it Open, // Current State = true;.

She has collaborated with UNITER award recipient Theater Director Radu Afrim, multiply honored extraordinary poets Douglas Kearney, Amelia Salisbury, Robyn Schiff and sound artists Thomas Stanley, Silk Duck, Hior Chronik, Silent Strike, Febra, Costin Chioreanu, Doug Seidel, Todd Tuttle. Her films and games have been showcased at venues across the world including Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival, Mimesis Documentary Festival, London Experimental Film Festival, Indie Grits, Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Antimatter, Montreal Underground Film Festival, Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival, Festival ECRÃ, Front International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, South Carolina Underground Film Festival, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, CÓDEC Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, 10'th International Video Poetry Festival Athens, International Film Guanajuato.

Recently Laura has finalized a series of short documentaries in collaboration with local growers and scientists about soil vitality in biodynamic farming and also on traditions of the Blue Ridge and Piedmont regions of Virginia such as Sorghum Pressing.

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