Chronicles of that Time / Cronici din acele vremuri

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Sometimes it takes a long time to understand that, maybe, one cannot cover the miles that separate them from home on a highway, nor through air or on water. The true dimensions of the experience of uprooting may lie not only in physical distance – they may instead float, volatile and incomprehensible, in the elusive substance of time. It is this same substance that the “Chronicles” of Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo draw upon, a back-and-forth journey along the wild thread of memory – in other words, a breath of the past and the present, the only one we can hold on to before it’s too late. Their movie is a composition for multiple voices, hummed from one shore of the Mediterranean to another, from one mosaic to another, haunting the dead images of a forsaken museum. As if trying to project on the screen the immateriality of time, the authors chose the risky challenge posed by a documentary which does justice to poetry and goes beyond it, sliding along the strings of emotion instead of feeding us raw, flat information. What else can the light gliding down a wet windshield and a love song in an unknown language tell us except that, eventually, the moments of silence and the disappearances are splendid pieces of throbbing life? (Andreea Chiper)

BIO Maria Iorio, Raphaël Cuomo 

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Abordând teme precum migrația și situațiile (post)coloniale, proiectele Mariei Iorio și ale lui Raphaël Cuomo investighează felul în care iau naștere și în care pot fi contestate narațiunile istorice hegemonice – filmele lor funcționează, prin urmare, ca o platformă a vocilor neauzite, a experiențelor diasporei și ale unor subiectivități care opun rezistență hegemoniei. Integrând metode curatoriale în lucrările lor, cei doi artiști au creat programe de film, situații cinematografice și expoziții ce revizitează istoriografia domeniului extins al practicilor imaginii în mișcare și al „cinemaurilor minore” – experimentale, amatoricești, feministe, decoloniale.

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Revolving around themes such as migration and (post)colonial encounters, the projects of Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo investigate the conditions under which hegemonic historical narratives are produced and can be challenged – their films thus work as a platform for unheard voices, diasporic experiences, and resistant subjectivities. Integrating curatorial methodologies in their work, the two artists have created film programs, cinema situations, and exhibitions that revisit the historiography of the expanded field of moving image practices and “minor cinemas” — experimental, amateur, feminist, decolonial.