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Unlovable Prospects. Saba’s look on the Future

"Unlovable Prospects. Saba’s look on the Future" is a short film that takes the form of a sci-fi (twilight zone type) miniseries, produced during the COVID lock-down spring 2020, Iasi, Romania.
Before the COVID-19 crisis, the scenarios that have now become a daily routine were specific to Hollywood, being isolated in the field of fiction. Starting from the parallel between fiction / film and reality ”Unlovable Prospects. Saba’s look on the Future ”proposes 4 dystopian scenarios of the post-COVID future. Combining empirical information with speculation and creative modeling, this project aims to critically analyze the capitalist system and how people can organize (or not) at critical times.

  • 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:
    Sci-Fi, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 25, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    Romania
  • Country of Filming:
    Romania
  • 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 (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.

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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.