DOWNCAST COLOSSUS. COMMUNIST ARCHITECTURE IN ROMANIA’S POST-COMMUNIST CINEMA

• Authors: Juliana Maxim
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article takes a closer look at a series of films and video performances that confront, assault, and more generally re-imagine the legacy and meaning of communist architecture in a post-communist world. Some of the works discussed are the Romanian artist Irina Botea’s video installations and photographs of 2003, revolving around the gigantic Ceausescu’s People’s House in Bucharest, and recent Romanian films in which the scenario revolves around the architecture of communist housing estates: 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006, director Corneliu Porumboiu), 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, director Cristian Mungiu), and “C” Block Story (2003, director Cristian Nemescu).

Keywords

EN

ARCHITECTURE; BOTEA IRINA; POST-COMMUNISM; CULTURAL MANIFESTATION; FILM; CINEMA; VIDEO; ROMANIA

• Publisher: Institute of History of Art, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: ARS
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 6 – 17

Contributors

author

Juliana Maxim

• Department of Art, Architecture & Art History, University of San Diego, Camino Hall 33, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110, USA