09/01/2026
🎬 ANDREI UJICĂ: IMAGES IN THE WORLD, IMAGES IN THE MIND
🤝 The Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, in partnership with e-flux Screening Room, presents an evening with acclaimed Romanian filmmaker, artist, and writer Andrei Ujică, as part of the series "Echoes and Distortions: Romanian Experimental Film and Video Art".
📅 September 15, 2026 | 7:00–9:00 PM
📍 e-flux, 172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205
🔗 RSVP: https://www.rciusa.info/events/andrei-ujica-images-in-the-world-images-in-the-mind
🎥 What happens when the camera does more than record history—when it becomes part of the historical event itself? And how can images created by television, political power, news media, and private individuals be rearranged through cinema to tell a different story about the past? These questions have been at the heart of Andrei Ujică’s work for more than three decades.
🎞️ The evening will bring together excerpts from three landmark films: "Videograms of a Revolution" (1992), co-directed with Harun Farocki, which reconstructs the Romanian Revolution of December 1989 through television broadcasts and amateur recordings; "The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu" (2010), which transforms official footage of the Romanian dictator into an extraordinary study of power and its self-image; and "TWST / Things We Said Today" (2024), in which archival footage, home movies, fictional narration, and animated drawings revisit New York in August 1965, with the Beatles’ Shea Stadium concert and television reports of the Watts Rebellion forming part of the same historical constellation.
🎤 Following the screening, Ujică and Brasiskis, curator of video and film at e-flux, will discuss the ideas that run through these works: the camera’s role in historical events, the relationship between recorded images and memory, montage as a form of counter-historical narration, and the possibilities—and limits—of cinema at a moment when moving images have become ubiquitous.
📚 The program will also mark the official launch of the English-language edition of "Meridian", Ujică’s book of conversations with Claudia Nedelcu Duca, translated into English by Claudia and Andrew Davidson-Novosivschei and forthcoming from Sticking Place Books. In the book, Ujică reflects on cinema, literature, politics, aesthetics, the generation of 1968, and the intellectual and artistic trajectory that has shaped his work.
💬 Devika Girish, Editor of Film Comment magazine, will join Ujică and Brasiskis for a special discussion of "Meridian", opening the conversation from the films toward the ideas, encounters, histories, and artistic influences that have accompanied Ujică’s life in cinema.
🌀 Curated by Andreea Drăghicescu in collaboration with Lukas Brasiskis, this is the second chapter of "Echoes and Distortions, following Ion Grigorescu: Body, Camera, Resistance" at e-flux Screening Room in May 2026.
✨ Join us for an evening about images and power, cinema and memory, and the ways history is recorded, constructed, dismantled, and remembered.
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