Andrei Ujică
Andrei Ujica | |
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Andrei Ujica (* 1951 in Timisoara, Rumänien) is a Romanian screenwriter and director.
Life and Works
Ujica studied literature in Timisoara, Bukarest und Heidelberg. He moved to Germany in 1981. In 1990 he began making films. Together with Harun Focki, he created "Videograms of a Revolution", a film which has become a standard work in Europa when referring to relationships between political power and the media and the end of the Cold War, and which was listed by the magazine Les Cahiers du Cinema as one of the top 10 subversive films of all time.
His next work, "Out of the Present", told the story of the cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov who spent 10 months on board MIR while back on Earth, the Soviet Union collapsed, which has been compared to film classics such as "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Solaris" and is considered one of the non-fiction cult films of the nineties. His latest work "Unknown Quantity" creates a fictional conversation between Paul Virilio and Svetlana Alexievich, author of "Voices from Chernobyl", exploring the witness's protocoll and the generation of history into catastrophe.
In 2001 Ujica became a professor for film at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. He founded the ZKM Film Institute in 2002 and is its director.
Filmography
- 1992: Videograms of a Revolution (director)
- 1992: Kamera und Wirklichkeit (director and screenwriter)
- 1995: Out of the Present (director and screenwriter)
- 2000: 2 Pasolini'
- 2005: Unknown Quantity
Weblinks
- Andrei Ujică at IMDb
