UK premiere!!
This week, there will be three screenings of the animated short film THE MAGICIAN, the latest work by Romanian filmmaker Bogdan Muresanu, in the official competition at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival in York, UK.

• Friday, at City Screen
• Saturday, at York Museum
• Sunday, at Temple Hall

THE MAGICIAN is a co-production between Romania, Croatia and France, premiering this summer at film events qualifying for the Hollywood Oscars and the European Film Awards.

Synopsis:

Sulina, 1910. It is the inauguration of the first electric power station in this Romanian port city. In the jubilation of a modern and cosmopolitan crowd, Ilarion, a prestidigitator from another time, tries to play his last card.

Director’s statement:

“I wanted to revive a bygone world and the technique of animation allowed me to recreate, from stills, the settings in which the action of the movie takes place, but I also wanted to get to the essence of the story. And here I think animation was a medium that suited my intention: not to illustrate the glory of a bygone world, through the fate of a once exuberant and cosmopolitan port, now reduced to the dimensions of a forgotten small town, but to represent the substance of the story I wrote many years ago,” says Bogdan Mureșanu.
“Film, especially animated film, which is supposed to be a total visual invention, has to produce an image that, at best, then hangs on the walls of those ‘dark corridors’ in the viewer’s mind.”, adds the director.

Bogdan Muresanu is a filmmaker who won the European Film Academy Award for his previous short film CADOUL DE CRACIUN, which was also a FINALIST at the Hollywood Oscars.

Next week, Bogdan Muresanu will participate in the official competition at the St Louis International Film Festival in the United States. This is yet another film event that qualifies for the Hollywood Oscars.

Very soon, we will announce more great news. Stay tuned!!

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