The Pearl of Moldova
"The Pearl of Moldova" is an experimental documentary that investigates the recent history of Slanic Moldova, town and spa resort from the Moldova region of Romania. An important touristic attraction since the 19th century, after the fall of the socialist regime, the town, it's properties and infrastructure have been privatised through suspicious methods by some of the wealthiest and most influential Romanian politicians / entrepreneurs, transforming public property in private capital.
(the documentary was filmed within the framework of "In Context" artist-in-residence program, 25th of May - 25th of June 2018, Slănic Moldova, Romania)
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Silvia Amancei & Bogdan ArmanuDirector
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Silvia Amancei & Bogdan ArmanuWriter
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Silvia Amancei & Bogdan ArmanuKey Cast
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Project Type:Documentary, Experimental, Short
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Genres:Drama, Experimental
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Runtime:17 minutes 35 seconds
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Completion Date:January 12, 2019
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Country of Origin:Romania
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Country of Filming:Romania
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Language:English, Romanian
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
Silvia Amancei and Bogdan Armanu (both b. in 1991) is an artist couple living and activating in the city of Iasi, Romania.
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 instrumentalized in order to overexcite the ability to look beyond capitalism and create a (common) future.
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.