“Now Is the Time to Include the Films Produced by the Alexandru Sahia Documentary Studio in Our Conversations About the Communist Past.” An Interview with Adina Brãdeanu
“Now Is the Time to Include the Films Produced by the Alexandru Sahia Documentary Studio in Our Conversations About the Communist Past.” An Interview with Adina Brãdeanu
Author(s): Ionuț MareșSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Muzeul Ţăranului Român, Editura Martor
Keywords: Film archive; curation; film studio; documentary cinema; Romanian cinema; collective memory;
Summary/Abstract: An interview with researcher Adina Brădeanu (University of Oxford) around the topic of curating film heritage. Since 2014, Brădeanu has curated a DVD series (SAHIA VINTAGE) which rediscovers the output and the production culture of the Alexandru Sahia studio (1950-1990), which was socialist Roma¬nia’s only studio specialized in documentary production. Brădeanu discusses the relevance of this collection, the curatorial process behind the DVDs, and the meaning of the term “vintage” in the context of a project that invites reflec¬tion on Romania’s socialism as lived experience.
Journal: Martor. Revue d’Anthropologie du Musée du Paysan Roumain
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 24
- Page Range: 194-202
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English