Bogdan Muresanu is unstoppable. This June, he will attend three of the world’s most important film festivals, which also serve as a selection stage for the Hollywood Oscars, with his animation short film The Magician:
- BALINALE/ Bali International Film Festival, Indonesia
- Huesca International Film Festival, Spain
- In The Palace International Short Film Festival, Bulgaria
“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 one of Europe’s most successful filmmakers.
His previous short film won the European Film Academy Award and was a FINALIST at the Oscars.
And with her feature film The New Year That Never Came, she enjoyed resounding success at major festivals such as Venice.
The Magician, also known as Magicianul, is a co-production between Romania, Croatia and France that was recently awarded the Gopo Award by the Romanian Film Academy.
Stay tuned, as we’ll soon be announcing more news about this resounding success in European animated cinema, including more festivals that qualify for the Hollywood Oscars.
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.
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