Friday, SEPT 9, from 17:00
Saturday, Sept 10, and Sunday, Sept 11, from 12:00
At The former Aurora Cinema (Ferdinand Blvd. 118)
* Participation at the guided tour is free of charge. To reserve a spot, please fill the form beside.
** All the spots available have been booked.
About the tour
The urban landscape is changing at a rapid pace, and we don't often realise how much our street, our neighbourhood, our city and, with them, our very lives have changed. We feel these changes especially when we stray from our usual routes, when we revisit places we haven't seen in a long time: the block where we grew up, the school we attended, the neighbourhood cinema where we used to go and watch the hottest movies. Cinema has the property of immortalising spaces and slices of life, of preserving and documenting the past, giving us the opportunity to revisit places that no longer exist or have changed forever.
We propose a guided tour of the Obor district, an old neighbourhood with a rich cultural history where. We will discuss, among other things, Veranda Mall, where a 12-screen cinema operated by Cinemax was inaugurated in 2019, Europa Cinema and the former Aurora Cinema, as well as the evolution of these locations in relation to the space as a whole.
We also propose a dialogue about fragments of landscape captured in Romanian films from various periods, which we will encounter during the tour. Stuff and Dough (Cristi Puiu, 2001), Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu, 2016), Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude, 2021), are some of the films we will talk about, each of them taking note, at some level, of the changes that have occurred in society and people's inability to adapt.
ITINERARY
The former Aurora Cinema (Ferdinand Blvd. 118) → Veranda Mall (Ziduri Moși Street 23) → Obor Square → Pasaj Bucur-Obor → Europa Cinema (Calea Mosilor 127)
About Adrian Ionescu (RO)
Adrian Ionescu (36) is a graduate of the Screenwriting-Film Studies section of the UNATC Film Faculty, currently studying for a Master's degree in Screenwriting, second year. He has collaborated as a screenwriter and lyricist in various cultural projects, but also as a composer, having a rich background in the world of Romanian underground alternative music. The area he explores is that of immediate reality, of the confusing present at the confluence of the near past and the uncertain future, of stories of the people around him, touching stories, treated in a subtly comic, empathetic key, with sensitive and nostalgic touches.