Video

Parkour Video is dedicated to the presentation and analysis of several artworks and art events representative of the recent history of Romanian art and culture, for the specific development of the work of the artistic personalities in focus. It is a program consisting of short documentary-interviews made with the participation of artists and some invited art historians and writers. Similar to the series of printed interviews called Parkour, their digital correspondent has an oral history format and a dense path of themes, moments and events, accompanied by their context, which can be found in various configurations in the research, exhibitions and editorial projects of the Institute of the Present. Parkour Video offers immediate access to the ideas that shaped the work of the artists as well as their stories, which have remained alive in the memory of the witnesses of the time.

2021

George Săbău

Interview by: Alina Șerban
Camera and video editing: Andreea Lăcătuș

Artworks: © George Săbău, Ioan Plesh, Alexandru Pecican
Archive: kinema ikon
Fragments from the films: Simultaneous Hypostases (1970) and Cuts (1980) by George Săbău, Panta Rhei (1979) by Ioan Plesh, Subliminal Exercise (1979), Alexandru Pecican, and Diary (1970–1990) by kinema ikon

Music: Lucian Meţianu, Pythagoreis, 1970
Subtitles: Diana Bularca

Pavel Ilie with Ion Grigorescu

Interview by: Alina Șerban
Camera and video editing: Andreea Lăcătuș

Artworks and archive: © Pavel Ilie, Ion Grigorescu
Additional archive: © Eugeniu Lupu

Music: Lucian Meţianu, Pythagoreis, 1970
Subtitles: Diana Bularca

Miriam Răducanu

Interview by: Alina Șerban, Ștefania Ferchedău
Video editing: Andreea Lăcătuș

Archive: © Miriam Răducanu, © Demarco Digital Archives / University of Dundee
Photograph by: Mircea Albuțiu

Video recording of the presentation of Genesis, by Miriam Răducanu, performed by Mădălina Dan in the exhibition 24 Arguments. Early Encounters in Romanian Neo-Avant-Garde 1969–1971, National Museum of Art of Romania

Fragment from the film The Great Passage, 1971, directed by Mirel Ilieșiu

Roman Cotoșman with Livius Ciocârlie

Interview by: Alina Șerban
Camera and video editing: Andreea Lăcătuș

Artworks: © Roman Cotoșman
Archives: © Cotoșman Family, Jecza Gallery

Music: Lucian Meţianu, Pythagoreis, 1970
Subtitles: Laura Ionică, Alina Șerban

Peter Jacobi

Interview by: Alina Șerban
Video editing: Andreea Lăcătuș
Camera: Alina Șerban

Archive: © Peter Jacobi

Music: Lucian Meţianu, Pythagoreis, 1970
Subtitles: Diana Bularca

Ion Grigorescu

Interview by: Ștefania Ferchedău
Camera and video editing: Andreea Lăcătuș

Artworks and archive: © Ion Grigorescu
Images from the films Clip-clop of Horseshoes, 1975, and In Beloved Bucharest, 1977, by Ion Grigorescu

Music: Lucian Meţianu, Pythagoreis, 1970
Subtitles: Diana Bularca

Diet Sayler

Interview by: Alina Șerban
Video editing: Andreea Lăcătuș

Artworks and archive: © Diet Sayler
Additional archive: © Eugeniu Lupu
Images from the exhibition Diet Sayler. Chance Doesn’t Lie, Neues Museum Nuremberg, 27.09.2019–29.08.2021

Music: Lucian Meţianu, Pythagoreis, 1970
Subtitles: Diana Bularca

Sigma Group with Adriana Babeți

Interview by: Alina Șerban
Camera and video editing: Andreea Lăcătuș

Artworks: © Group Sigma, Constantin Flondor
Archives: © Constantin Flondor, Doru Tulcan
Images from the exhibition Current Issues on Space in the Visual Arts, UNESCO Art Week, 13 December 1974, 6 pm, Bastion Art Galleries, Timișoara
Fragments from the film Game with Balloons, 1974, by Constantin Flondor

Music: Lucian Meţianu, Pythagoreis, 1970
Subtitles: Diana Bularca

Octavian Nemescu

Interview by: Ștefania Ferchedău
Video editing: Andreea Lăcătuș

Subtitles: Ștefania Ferchedău

Constantin Flondor

Interview by: Alina Șerban
Camera and video editing: Andreea Lăcătuș

Video recording for the exhibition The Modern Idol. Henry Moore in the Eastern Bloc, National Museum of Art of Romania, 14 October 2021–6 February 2022

Music: Lucian Meţianu, Pythagoreis, 1970
Subtitles: Diana Bularca

Ioana Vlasiu

Interview by: Alina Șerban
Camera and video editing: Andreea Lăcătuș

Video recording for the exhibition The Modern Idol. Henry Moore in the Eastern Bloc, National Museum of Art of Romania, 14 October 2021–6 February 2022

Music: Lucian Meţianu, Pythagoreis, 1970
Subtitles: Diana Bularca