[In the framework of Performing Revolution Festival]
COLD WAVES featured at "A View from the East: Documentaries of Eastern Europe"
Presented by the Reserve Film and Video Collection at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
This film series spotlights post-1989 documentaries made in East Europe, including Alexandru Solomon's Cold Waves (2007) on January 26.
The series also features: 'The Man Who Overestimated the Czech Soul: The Escapes of Josef Bryks' (dir. Jan Novak, 2007); 'Diamonds in the Dark' (dir. Olivia Carrescia, 1999); 'The Old and the New' (dir. Neven Korda and Zemira Alajbegovic, 1997); 'The Orange Alternative' (dir. Miroslaw Dembicki, 1989), 'Dwarves Go to the Ukraine' (dir. Miroslaw Dembicki, 2005), and 'Do Communists Have Better Sex?' (dir. Andre Meier, 2006.
“The post-modern narrative form seems almost tailor-made for Communist Romania, a murky land of suspicion and conspiracy theories: truth and lie, then and now, facts and assumptions, all merge to form a ghostly web. Solomon has used this to make a masterpiece of a film about the history of the Romanian section of Radio Free Europe.” – Chris Keulemans, IDFA.
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