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Overview

  • 15 references 12 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Romanian; learning French
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Film Curator
  • Film Studies, Programming & Curation
  • From Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania
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About Me

I am a cinéphile and a film curator. I work with independent artists to promote their work and vision.
I believe World could be saved through Art. It’s such a shame mass people follow political personalities rather than artists.

I curated a thematic film season at Rio Cinema in London exploring “Solitude on the Screen", details on togotheralone2.com

I am traveling at the moment, enjoying my time with local communities and find out what their places can offer. Different cultures, different perspectives.

PHILOSOPHY

I don't believe in maybes.

Flexibility and softness is the embodiment of life.

Don't waste your time exchanging money, share!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because I think jazz, act punk, and live free.

Interests

  • film making
  • film festivals
  • education
  • environment
  • traveling
  • films

Music, Movies, and Books

jazz, acid-jazz, funk-jazz, rock-jazz, post punk electronic rock, alternative rock, traditional ethnographic music, chinese music, reggae, nevermind the orders.

I have a passion for films with cinematic experience and a strong vision... I appreciate independent cinema who offers remarkable perspectives upon cultures, something that you can’t experience on your own. Cinema has the power of dreams, whenever you get lost, you’re safe.

I love local venues who provides a place to the communities to become part of the discourse and represent them in what we see on the screen.

Although it is hard to recommend films for everyone who check my profile, I’ll name just a few arthouse filmmakers such as Zeki Demirkubuz, Hong Sang-soo, Bi Gan, Tseden Pema, Jane Campion, Alfonso Cuaron, Carlo Reygadas, Laura Mora Ortega, Dominga Sotomayor, Shane Carruth, Andrea Arnold (UK), Lynne Ramsay, Joanna Hogg, Marc Crehuet, Nadine Labaki, Mia Engberg, Alexi Salmenperä, Radu Jude, Cristian Mungiu, Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Mati Diop, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Tamara Kotevska, Zaza Urushadze, Xavier Dolan, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Wim Wenders, Andrey Zvyaginstev, Ildikó Enyedi, Stephan Komandarev, Lee Chang-dong, Nora Fingscheidt, Bora Kim, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Michael Haneke, Patricia Ortega, Alexandros Avranas, Urszula Antoniak, Ziad Doueiri, Marina Stepanska, Tomasz Wasilewski, Denis Villeneuve, Ulrich Seidl, Park Jung-bum, Lars von Trier, Sergey Loznitsa, Michal Maraczak, Jan Speckenbach, Cathreine Breillat, Mehdi Ben Attia, Carlos Saura Ciro Guera, Abdellatif Kechiche, Asghar Farhadi, Hlynur Palmason, Nana Ekvtimishvili, Alonso Ruizpalacios, László Nemes, Wong Kar-wai, Kiril Serebrennikov, KimKi-duk, Scott Graham, Yaron Shani, Bartosz Kowalski, Sahim Omar Kalifa, Nicolas Winding Refn, Fabrice du Welz, Bruno Dumont, François Ozon, Daniel Kockburn, Adina Pintilie, Clio Barnard, Jeppe Rønde, Pelayo Lira, Goran Bregovic, Pan Nalin.

Hopefully you will enjoy their films in your local independent cinema 📽

about authors: Philosophy of Humboldt, Nietzsche, Saussure, Pierce, Coseriu Eugenio, Hegel, Jung, Camus Albert, Erasmus, Darwin, Aristotel, Cioran Emil, Stanescu Nichita, Einstein, Bergson, Freud Sigmund, Blaga Lucian....
ethnology of Evseev Ivan, Hasdeu Bogdan Petriceicu, Riviere Claude, Eliade Mircea, Gorovei Arthur, Grimm...
and literature: Atwood Margaret, London Jack, Laing Olivia, Woolf Virginia, Carter Angela, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Puskin, Eco, Hoffman, Hugo, Tristan Tzara, Rebreanu Liviu, Dumas Alexandre, Eminescu Mihail, Baudelaire, Petrarca Francesco

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I am constantly replacing my habits.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can see good things in people when they don’t.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My meal, my place, and much more.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Romania

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