The coordinator of the participation of Romania at the EUROPALIA International Arts Festival (2019-2020), the Romanian Cultural Institute recently brought together many of the people who contributed to this country program. The meeting took place at the Royal Living Room of the National Art Museum of Romania (MNAR).
“The Bruxelles film retrospective from EUROPALIA, was the first one of this span, on an international level, in the history of the Romanian cinema. It was the first time ever to screen such a large number of significant Romanian films abroad. This thing was possible first of all because of the increasing interest in the Romanian cinema. During these past 15-20 years, since the New Romanian Wave, the Romanian cinema elevated to the superior discourse of the international art cinema. Since the invention of the camera, the moving images archives became the place we treasured our history. That is why the pedagogical importance of a retrospective is ever growing.
There are some pedagogical minuses that still persist because of the old organizing habits of the higher education. Let`s hope that slowly, things will go that direction and we will try to wire up to the desiderata of a film culture which are more advanced in other geographical spaces. Because otherwise, all this movement called the Romanian New Wave would succumb due to the lack of
audience, due to the lack of impactful critical discourse, due to the lack of cinemas, as it happened a few times in the history of the Romanian culture. The Romanian film presented during EUROPALIA ROMANIA gave us hope that it is worth staying optimistic.”
Andrei Ujică declared.
Over 200,000 people attended the 250 events which represented the Romanian creativity in the world by means of the visual arts, music, cinema, literature, the performing arts, during the EUROPALIA Festival. The exhibition “Brâncuși. Sublimation of Form” at the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts had a record number of visitors: until February 2, 2020, the exhibition curated by Doina Lemny was visited by 116,000 people from all over the world.
At the same time, the National History Museum of Romania is the coordinator, alongside ICR, of two history exhibition with patrimony and treasure objects which will be opened during EUROPALIA until April 26, 2020. The first exhibition is called “dacia felix”, which was visited by 24,684 people by March, the 1st. The second one is called “ROOTS – The Neolithic, Bronze and First Iron Age of Romania” and had 5,043 visitors until March 9, 2020, according to the data sent by EUROPALIA International.
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Institutul Cultural Român
