Dallas!!

Super high excited about the imminent screening of THE MAGICIAN, the new film by Bogdan Muresanu, in the DIFF Shorts competition, which is taking place at the fabulous Angelika Film Centre in Dallas, Texas, this weekend.

THE MAGICIAN, one of the year’s most successful animated short films on the international film festival circuit,is on the longlist for the 99th Academy Awards®.

Bogdan Muresanu is one of Europe’s most renowned filmmakers. A regular at the world’s most prestigious film festivals, his previous short film was shortlisted for the Oscars and won an EFA European Film Award.

THE MAGICIAN had its world premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France.

Since then, it has been screened at countless film festivals around the world, including numerous festivals that qualify for the Hollywood Oscars.

Bogdan Muresanu also knows what it’s like to succeed in the United States with his films. He won the Grand Jury Prize at Palm Springs, and we can still hear the applause from the HollyShorts Film Festival.

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.

Bogdan Muresanu about THE MAGICIAN:

Director 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.

Stay tuned, as we’ll soon be announcing further successes for this masterpiece of animated cinema, which is on the longlist for the 99th Academy Awards®.