Austin Film Society - Experimental Films From Romania

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Austin Film Society and Artslink Artist Residency present
Visiting filmmaker Sergiu Lupse in attendance for Q&A session
Sergiu Lupse is a filmmaker from Romania. He graduated with a focus on
Film and Photography and has a Masters Degree in Experimental Film. In
2006 he received a grant for young filmmakers from the U.F.A. In 2007
he received a filmmaking scholarship from CIANT in Prague. This year,
he was selected for the prestigious Artslink Artist Residency and has
chosen the Austin Film Society for his host institution. His portfolio
includes a product catalog for Vichy, various TV commercials, ads and
promos for television, 10 short films, many of which have screened at
festivals in Europe and US. In his films, he uses visual stimuli in the
form of colors or sound and music to pinpoint or accelerate emotions
and feelings that the character might be experiencing. He also has an
independent Visual FX studio and has worked on client reels and visual
effects for film and videos. He is producing his first feature film and
is currently working on the screenplay for a sci-fi pilot. When he's
not making films or writing screenplays he enjoys watching movies,
reading sci-fi books, playing computer games, listening to old punk
music or having a night out with friends. Sergiu currently resides in
Sibiu, Romania.

Program Nature- Written and directed by
Sergiu Lupse, 2002, DV, 2 min 51 sec. Cast: Lost Soul - Paul Cotoc,
Wood Witch/Tormented Soul - Ionut Suciu, Wood Witch - Oana Suciu. A man
gets lost walking through the woods, so he climbs a tree to see where
he is. He falls unconscious to the ground. He becomes a traveler
through the underworld, a ghost. He takes another road through the
forest and images from his past surface, revealing a way out.
Labyrinth - Black & White- Written and directed by Sergiu Lupse,
2002, DV, B&W, 4 min 9 sec. Cast: Verhoven - Paul Cotoc After
intensive years inside a factory a man isolates himself from the world.
Hidden away, his only tie to the outside world is his TV. Unaware of
the fact that the TV is turning him into a simple spectator, depriving
him of all emotions, the man becomes a prisoner inside his own body. An
image keeps repeating on his TV, and something inside him snaps. To
escape this, he knows there's only one thing left to do.
Utopia-
Directed by Sergiu Lupse, 2003, DV, color, 22 sec. Cast: Snail-O, Man
#1 - Emmyneth Soit, Man #2 - Lucian Marcusiu, Man #3 - Flaviu
Ghitulescu, Man #4 - Istvan Havadi A snail steps into a fantastic
world, finding a way out of his shell.
Relativ (Relative)-
Written and directed by Sergiu Lupse, music by Vlad Tanasescu, 2004,
DV, color, 2 min 48 sec. Cast: JIN 56T - Alexandru Lupse, RUHR 48W -
Alexandru Popa Two cops are called to the location of a possible crime
scene. The setting is a labyrinth-like building, a surreal environment,
created only to mislead, to confuse. They choose to investigate
nonetheless. They split to cover more ground. As they search the place,
they get lost and end up facing their own monsters -- each other.
Time Lapse- Written and directed by Sergiu Lupse, 2004, DV, color, 2
min 16 sec. Cast: Old Man - Istvan Havadi, People on street - Extras An
old man, lost in a big world where everything moves two times faster
than he does, a man reaches for freedom, hoping time will be on his
side. Through his broken watch he stops time and escapes back to the
world he grew up in, a world he knew and didn't fear.

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