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Stories from the land of Capital

"Stories from the land of Capital" is a video essay that presents six stories starting from a series of six collages that offer a dystopian and cartoonish reflection on life under capitalism.
Throughout the past years the rhythm of collision of events has accelerated shattering any sentiment of comfort and safety one had even in the economically superior societies. From poverty and work alienation to the terrorist threat of the other, from political turmoil to ecological emergency and virologic threat, the human psyche has been overburnt by these issues and the accelerated rhythm of their appearance. Within this context death becomes the only certainty and we become immobilized by its threat.

  • Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu
    Director
  • Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu
    Writer
  • Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu
    Producer
  • Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Essay, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 56 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 20, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu

Silvia Amancei and Bogdan Armanu (b. 1991, Iași and Timișoara) is an artist couple working together since 2012. Their artistic practice could be positioned at the border between social studies and visual art, researching for methods and examples where art and artistic means can be instrumentalised in order to overexcite the ability to look beyond capitalism.

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Director Statement

We activate as independent artists, working with the issues triggered by the new paradigm of life exploitation and at the shelter of our micro community we try to assure our political / intellectual existence by means which could be understood as artistic. We feel the need of change and would like to put a shoulder to the materialization of this much needed movement, at least through the means available for us, i.e. questioning, underlining, sharing, so on and so forth.

Within the process of materialization of our political position we like to make use of all the knowledge and skill available to us. Therefore we consider our artistic practice to be trans-medial, flexible and shapeless, extending its subjective knowledge across the exhibition space, will that be a gallery, a street or the space(s) of the Internet.

Our revolutionary march starts from the position of the oppressed / marginal / the Other, and by appropriating the dominant Discourse, having as purpose the maintenance of its critic, we end up being absorbed by the multitude of layers of the Capital.