Temps d'Images #10 | Programme

DISCOURSE and REALITY Festival TEMPS D’IMAGES

© Cristian Rusu

THEATRE. DANCE. VIDEO

#10 5-12 November 2017, Cluj www.tempsdimages.ro

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17:30 Film for friends / film

by Radu Jude White Cuib ----------------------------------18:00, 21:00* L.imited L.iability S.ociety / theatre

by Florin Caracala The Paintbrush Factory, Studio Hall *each performance is a different version of the show ----------------------------------20:00 37 minutes of make believe / dance

by Andreea Novac ZUG.zone -----------------------------------

17:30 Film for friends / film

by Radu Jude White Cuib ----------------------------------19:00 The Miracle of Cluj / theatre

by David Schwartz REACTOR of Creation and Experiment ----------------------------------20:30 Political Theatre 2009-2017 / book release produced by TACT Publishing House and ADO Association REACTOR of Creation and Experiment ----------------------------------21:00 Slaves / theatre

by Theodor-Cristian Popescu The Paintbrush Factory, Studio Hall -----------------------------------

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17:30 Film for friends / film

by Radu Jude White Cuib ----------------------------------17:30 FC Roma / film

by Tomáš Bojar and Rozálie Kohoutová powered by KineDok Tranzit House ----------------------------------19:00 Țuhaus / theatre

by Lorand Maxim The Paintbrush Factory, Studio Hall ----------------------------------21:00 Who killed Szomma Grancsa? / theatre produced by Giuvlipen Theatre Company ZUG.zone -----------------------------------

19:00 Reacting Cernobyl / theatre

by Cosmin Matei ZUG.zone ----------------------------------21:00 Sugar Free Family / theatre produced by Teatrul Mic in coproduction with REPLIKA Educational Theatre Center Sapientia University -----------------------------------

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17:30 Book release: 10 years of Temps d’Images. Independence.

Experiment. Production Book release: Focus Atelier 360° – Practices in Political Art in Eastern Europe Plan B Gallery ----------------------------------19:00 Oregayo / theatre

by Yuta Hagiwara The Paintbrush Factory, Studio Hall ----------------------------------21:00 UNEDUCATED / theatre produced by teatru-spălătorie ZUG.zone -----------------------------------

17:00 Witnessing loss / performative installation

by Kelemen Kinga and Rarița Zbranca The Paintbrush Factory, RAP Hall ----------------------------------17:30 Parkour: publications by The Institute of the Present / book presentation

by The Institute of the Present Plan B Gallery ----------------------------------19:00 Forbidden Books (close it and put it away) / theatre

by Szymon Adamczack The Paintbrush Factory, Studio Hall ----------------------------------21:00 there is more than one way to manufacture / concert produced by Universal Pleasure Factory The Paintbrush Factory, Studio Hall -----------------------------------

Editorial Discourse and Reality, the theme of the 10th edition of the Temps d’Images Festival, brings together the concerns we shared with you over the years. Different for each edition, the themes have one thing in common: the need to imagine the future.

Throughout the years, Temps d’Images (The Time of Images) became the image of our times, an attempt to understand the contemporary world through various forms of art. Because we imagined something would follow after post-bankruptcy, we searched for new working tools, but we observed the conflict between discourse and reality. We focused our attention on the promise of a future which is better than the present and on what is actually happening before our eyes. For 10 editions we tried to keep our lucidity, and we tried not to lose touch with reality.

Starting now, we pass the baton to you!

Miki Braniște

Theatre L.imited L.iability S.ociety (100 min) by: Florin Caracala with: Alexandra Caras | Cătălin Filip | Alina Mișoc | George Sfetcu | Andreea Spătaru | Doru Taloș dramaturgy: Alexa Băcanu | Alexandra Chițu | Ana Cucu Popescu | Petro Ionescu original music: bodoki-halmen zsolt | video: Andrei Cozlac | Marian-Mina Mihai | drawings: Lucia Mărneanu producer: Colectiv A

The show proposes four main narratives, independent of each other, which give rise to several possible variants of the show. Each narrative is a free adaptation of the Old lady’s visit, written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Each root reveals, in a different way, how a social group is handling a moral crisis that has been delayed for decades. In short, [L.L.S] provides a detailed view on how human interaction, in critical moments, can challenge the fundamental moral values that stand as a ground base for each society. Given the principle of the snowball effect, the relation between cause and effect deepens the crisis and the conflict, thus leading to a point zero of individual responsibility.

The Miracle of Cluj (90 min) by: David Schwartz with: Oana Mardare | Lucia Mărneanu | Denisse Moise | Doru Taloș scenography: Anda Pop | dramaturgy: Petro Ionescu | music: Kristina Sipos | illustrations: Lucia Mărneanu research assistant: Silvia Netedu | video: Daniel Răduțu producer: REACTOR of Creation and Experiment

The Miracle of Cluj is a theatre performance and it is included in Democracy exercises. Investigating the recent history project made by REACTOR of Creation and Experiment. Having a miraculous aura of “Everything is possible”, the performance brings up on stage the story of the pyramid scheme named Caritas from the ’90s. Step by step, the political and social dimension behind this phenomenon is revealed, showing how the scheme expanded on a national scale.

Slaves (100 min) by: Theodor-Cristian Popescu with: Alexandra Caras | Florin Caracala | Mirel Ovidiu Rusu | Paul Socol | Vlad Udrescu dramaturgy: Maria Manolescu | scenography: Cristina Milea | scenography assistant: Gabriella Spiridon | light design: Alexandros Raptis original music: Andrei Raicu technical assistant: Carina Bunea producer: Colectiv A co-producer: The Paintbrush Factory Federation A couple tries to find their common rhythm to conceive a child. She – a journalist who has reoriented herself to meditation and Feng Shui, in order to discover her inner harmony by ignoring what is evil and ugly in the world. He – a little-known actor, obsessed by the injustices and abuses around him. The decision to contact a former slave, released from a sheepfold, in order to create a theatre performance with a social impact, makes the couple feel anxious while facing their immediate reality. Is it involvement or isolation? Is it trying to change the world or the detached look of the great show of life, full of contradictions and divergent interests?

Țuhaus (90 min) by: Lorand Maxim with: Vlad Bălteanu | Mișa Dumitriu | Alexandra Horghidan | Andrada Lăutaru | Lorand Maxim | Alexandru Potocean | Andrei Șerban | Alexandra Voivozeazu producers: Reciproca | ADO Association | MACAZ Teatru Bar Coop 2017 marks 20 years since the most massive protests in the Romanian penitentiary system took place – where thousands of imprisoned people refused food and challenged the detention conditions. Today the allegations are similar. At the beginning of the year, with the rising tide of anti-corruption, the prison system problems became secondary and the difficulties faced by over 25,000 convicted people were ignored. Ţuhaus blames the detention conditions, and the conditions people from behind the bars have to face. Therefore, Ţuhaus is an invitation to reflect on how criminalization, guilt and punishment are understood and operated by contemporary society.

Who killed Szomna Grancsa? (90 min) by: Mihai Lukacs with: Liana Ceterchi | Mihaela Drăgan | Zita Moldovan scenography: Elena Dobîndă | live music: Elena Albu producer: Giuvlipen Theatre Company The show follows the story of a 17-year-old Roma girl from Harghita, who is found hanged in her parents’ barn. Szomna’s story cannot be deciphered either by the community or the people of the law, although everyone has an explanation for the girl’s death. Why this gesture from a girl who seemed to be happy in everyone’s eyes? Moreover, Szomna was very religious, so her gesture is contradicting the beliefs which guided her throughout her life.

Before she died, she left a message on the wall.

What is its significance? The statements of those who knew her seem all true but they contradict each other. We remain only with the words of the first witness: “I do not understand.” Everyone pleads “not guilty” although they all live with the feeling of blame.

Reacting Chernobyl (100 min) by: Cosmin Matei with: Maya Sebők | Emőke Pál | Tímea Udvari | Levente Imecs-Magdó | Zsolt Csepei | András Hatházi | Júlia Sipos dramaturgy: Raluca Sas-Marinescu producer: Váróterem Projekt

“It’s easy to slip on banalities, especially on banalities of incomprehensible things. (…) The mind can absorb just a certain rate of horror, before it shuts down defensively. Based on such a logic, when the danger exceeds our imagination, we deduce that the danger itself is not real. (…) The time of secrets has passed. Chernobyl changed it. (…) You don’t care at all if I love you a week or two, or my whole life?” – Reacting Chernobyl, a dramatic and heavily symbolic play that shows the proportions of the Chernobyl disaster.

Sugar Free Family (110 min) by: Radu Apostol with: Mihaela Rădescu | Viorel Cojanu | Gabi Costin | Oana Pușcatu | Silvana Negruțiu | Paul Dunca dramaturgy: Mihaela Michailov | scenography: Arh. Gabi Albu | music: Bobo Burlăcianu | coregraphy: Paul Dunca video-design: Elena Găgeanu, Arh. Gabi Albu | technical assistance, director’s assistant: Andreea Iacomiță music training: Oana Pușcatu | live piano orchestration: Silvana Negruțiu | Oana Pușcatu producer: Teatrul Mic co-producer: REPLIKA Educational Theater Center

OREGAYO (65 min) by: Yuta Hagiwara with: Honami Shimizu scenography: Katsunori Yokoi | light design: Minoru Chida | stage manager: Shin Ito producer: Kamome Machine 70 years ago, right after the World War II, the

Sugar Free Family is a musical about the Romanian family. Family is perceived as an intersectional concert in which the voices of parents, children, grand-parents, church, robots, the voices of normative rules and oppressive clichés, the voices of those who do not fit in the pre-established social formats and inherited patterns, model the conception regarding the family seen as the foundation of our society. Family is a fluid construction in which the sense of belonging is continuously reimagined together with a set of relations that change due to unpredicted floating contexts.

Constitution of Japan was written based on the reflection on war. Therefore, the Japanese citizens pledged: Abandonment of war; Respect for the human rights, and respect for the Sovereignty of the people. But for several years the Japanese government has been trying to modify this document. Using texts from the Constitution and from politicians' speeches, Oregayo describes the public mood at the time of the adoption of the Japanese constitutive act and tries to overcome the dichotomy between the contemporary revisionists and constitutional loyalists, asking questions about the future of the country.

UNEDUCATED (90 min) by and with: Ion Borș | Nora Dorogan | Nicoleta Esinencu | Doriana Talmazan | Irina Vacarciuc sound: Kira Seminov producer: teatru-spălătorie “Learn for life, not for school!” was the motto of the reform initiated by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Moldova in 2015. Learn what? Because today the school teaches us to buy our place in school, our grades in the classroom, the admission exam in high school. In the context of the elaboration of the 2020 Education Strategy, the adoption of the new Education Code that would modernize the education system in line with the Bologna Process, Uneducated proposes an ingression into the educational process starting with the pillow, blanket and scarf – mandatory from the first steps in the kindergarten right until the online purchase of the bachelor degree.

Forbidden Books (close it and put it away) (80 min) by: Szymon Adamczak with: Bence Molnár | Emese Simó | Tímea Udvari scenography: Iringó Xénia Róth | techno mix: Bernadett Sztanó | technical director: Attila Almási project coordinator: Zenkő Bogdán co-producers: TESZT Festival | Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre Timișoara | Colectiv A | Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland | The Paintbrush Factory Federation The performance celebrates our failed attempts at making sense of our insignificance in a world that is as isolated as it is viral. But we give the benefit of the doubt in search for some poetry. The creators are trying to translate their millennial nostalgia into a language as modern as a student apartment furnished with the best of IKEA. They offer their imagined or lived pasts and presents: growing up is singing a cover of a favourite song with a toy xylophone and a guitar. Sex is a childish game with different types of food that don’t taste good together. Love is all the passionate words written in your diary and life means stalking Sandra Bullock.

Theatre is a curated evening of internet consumption, a party that collapses into lazy pizza eating or an excuse to be together.

Dance

performances, both theoretically and historically.

Texts: ’90 (2017); Capete înfierbântate. 13-15 iunie 1990 (2010); Ce-am fi dac-am ști – Feerie politică protestatară (2015); După Traian și Decebal (din filele istoriei gay în România) (2012); Faceți loc! (2009); Nu ne-am născut în locul potrivit (2011); subPământ.

Valea Jiului după 1989 (2012); Voi n-ați văzut nimic!

(2015) Project financed by AFCN.

37 minutes of make believe (37 min) by: Andreea Novac producers: Colectiv A in partnership with The National Dance Center Bucharest “Fantasy and reality are equally personal, and equally felt, so their confusion is a matter of only relative importance.” – Luis Buñuel 37 minutes of make believe makes use of movement and spoken word to facilitate the encounter between the performer’s and audience’s imaginations. The performance is an interplay between the spoken word and its possible interpretations, between movement and its materialisation, between what it is and what it could be. The result is a show which is deeply influenced by each spectator’s willingness to perceive, remember and imagine.

Book Release Political Theatre 2009-2017 (45 min) coordinators: Mihaela Michailov and David Schwartz producers: TACT Publishing House and ADO Association Teatru politic 2009-2017 [Political Theatre 2009-2017] ties eight texts focused on political theatre and a preface with extra thoughts that contextualizes the appearance of these texts and

10 years of Temps d’Images. Independence.

Experiment. Production (45 min) producer: Colectiv A 10 years of Temps d’Images. Independence.

Experiment. Production reviews the ten editions in which the festival produced, supported and presented to the audience theatre, dance productions, and performances that with each year challenged the collective imaginary through acute and relevant social and political issues.

Project financed by AFCN.

Focus Atelier 360˚ – Practices in Political Art in Eastern Europe (30 min) producer: Reciproca Focus Atelier 360° – Practices in Political Art in Eastern Europe is a documentation of the three residencies and the three workshops/workgroups formed around the themes: From propaganda to post-truth: Political and personal histories, proposed by Nicoleta Esinencu; The Revolutionary Body, proposed by Veda Popovici; and Fear and Love in Cluj, proposed by Alexander Manuiloff, at Focus Atelier 2017.

Project financed by AFCN.

Parkour: publications from The Institute of the Present (45 min) with: Ștefania Ferchedău and Alina Șerban producer: The Institute of the Present The Institute of the Present launches the micro-publications series in bilingual format (Romanian / English) dedicated to an artist or to a significant event or action in the field of visual and performing culture. Parkour recomposes an atlas of personal narratives shared by artists in the form of an interview and a self-chronology, mediating better or less-known histories. In a conscious effort to record the strong link between art and life, the chronologies outlined together with the artists prompt a re-reading of the personal development along the following chapters: artistic concepts and interests; events and trips; affinities; friends. In 2017, the first publications are dedicated to artists: Miriam Răducanu, Constantin Flondor, Ion Grigorescu, Octavian Nemescu and Lia Perjovschi.

Project financed by AFCN.

game rather than play on the same field as Roma.

And when they do get to play with others, they receive insults and repeated mentions of Hitler from players and spectators alike. This is the depth and breadth of racism in the Czech Republic, explored in this film not only on the soccer field, but also in clubs and in the daily life of the players. Elegant scenes vérité show the Roma players in all their humanity. Gradually the team’s perspective is empathetically transferred to the viewers. The sadness, absurdity, and even hilarity of the situation this soccer club finds itself in are all too familiar to the Romanian public.

Film Film for friends (58 min) by: Radu Jude with: Gabriel Spahiu and Șerban Pavlu A rough monologue about failure and friendship, the film is considered by some critics a black comedy, and by others, a drama.

A private cinema just for you and three friends. Access can be done solely by making reservations at whitecuib@gmail.com.

FC Roma (76 min) by: Tomáš Bojar | Rozálie Kohoutová cinematography: Rozálie Kohoutová | Jiří Chod editing: Evženie Brabcová producer: Pavla Janoušková Kubečková | nutprodukce | HBO Cehia powered by KineDok In the Czech Republic, an all-Roma soccer team from the bottom league works hard – not to win, but simply to play. Many teams choose to forfeit the

Performative Installation

Concert

Witnessing loss by: Kelemen Kinga and Rarița Zbranca producer: Temps d'Images

there is more than one way to manufacture (60 min) by and with: Panna Adorjáni | László Bakk-Dávid | zsolt bodoki-halmen | Dani Láng | Kinga Ötvös producer: Universal Pleasure Factory

We experience loss in many ways. A break-up, a rejection letter, the death of a family member, a close friend moving to another country, ending a job, or failing an exam. We are constantly confronted with situations of loss and the need to cope with them. We all have our own ways of facing adversities. Sometimes we hide and sink into silence. Sometimes we play one special song over and over again. Sometimes we completely reject the reality of the loss.

In witnessing personal stories of loss we (re)claim our right to grieve. In a collective search for new rituals of mourning, we create space for pain to be named.

there is more than one way to manufacture (tism to watoma) is a project made by associate artists of the Universal Pleasure Factory in the format of a concert. The concept behind tism to watoma is to create a discourse about contemporary music written within the aesthetics of pop culture. By reshaping hit songs from the 20th and 21th centuries, the question arises: what is the real subject of the nostalgia that is enabled while listening to familiar tunes? Does this feeling alter if we change its subject?

All performances have English and Romanian surtitles.

Tickets

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25 lei full price 15 lei reduced for students and pensioners

Festival director: Miki Braniște

Free entrance to all the presentations, book releases, installations and film screenings of the festival.

Tickets can be bought in advance online on Biletmaster.ro and at the Theater Agency (Agenția Teatrală - 14, Ștefan cel Mare Square) open Tuesday to Sunday, 11 am to 2 pm and 3 am to 5 pm, and Wens Tour Agency (10, Eroilor Blvd.), open Monday to Friday, 9 am to 6 pm.

If available, tickets will also be sold on location 30 minutes before the event.

Curators: Iulia Popovici and Miki Braniște Associated artist: Radu Jude Festival coordinator: Cristina Bodnărescu Production & logistics coordinator: Simina Corlat Communication & PR: Corina Știrbu, Theia Golea Technical coordinator: Attila Almási Volunteer coordinator: Radu Bogdan Publication coordinator: Oana Hodade Publication editor: Iulia Popovici International & Guest: Sinta Wibowo Director assistant: Delia Bulgaru Production & logistics assistants: Ani Mărincean, Emil Florea Ticketing: Alexandra Chițu Design: Eugen Coșorean Poster image: Cristian Rusu Photo: Roland Váczi Video: Mihai Stanciu Website: Dan Burzo

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Fabrica de Pensule / The Paintbrush Factory Studio Hall (1st floor), RAP Hall (ground floor), Plan B Gallery (ground floor) 59-61, Henri Barbusse st.

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REACTOR of Creation and Experiment 4, Petőfi Sándor st.

ZUG.zone 40-42, Traian st.

Tranzit House 16, George Barițiu st.

White Cuib 2/1, Franklin Delano Roosevelt st.

Sapientia University 4, Calea Turzii

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