Audiodescription
Tell Me A Poem
Original Title: Spune o poezie
Authors: Elena Chirila, Ana Gurdiș
Romania, 11 minutes, 2023, experimental
The sequences of a personal diary, highlighting the child-adult evolution, accompany the viewer on a journey marked by uncertainty, helplessness, and self-doubt, which eventually lead to escape. The video-poem oscillates between poetry and documentary, emphasizing a woman’s struggle to free herself from repression and regain her voice and strength.
Trigger warning: description of domestic violence, abuse, suicide attempt
Film screening dates: 27.11.2023 — 10.12.2023
Film screening dates: 27.11.2023 — 10.12.2023
Director
Elena Chirila is a visual artist, having a context-based practice. Her works deal with issues such as the dematerialization of the work of art or the personal perception, in relation to the collective one, of the materiality of places. She is a graduate of the Mural Art specialization at the National University of Art “George Enescu” (Iași, Romania) and has recently participated in a study mobility at the ESAAA école supérieure d’art annecy alpes (France). Both in personal and collaborative projects, she likes to deconstruct topics such as female gaze, queer identity, collective memory, and undermining structures of oppression.
Director
Ana Gurdiș is a filmmaker from Moldova who currently resides in Bucharest. She holds a Journalism degree from the National University in Moldova and a Film Direction degree from the National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale” in Romania. In 2021, she premiered her debut feature documentary “Our Eve” at the Transilvania International Film Festival. Currently Ana is working on her second feature documentary and trying new forms of video arts in between.