Diana Vidrascu (1987, Romania) is a filmmaker based in Paris, France. Working with film, photography and installation, Diana Vidrascu questions the narrative devices of cinema by challenging the limits of the narrative discourse and codes of the film genres.
She studied Cinematography at the National Film Academy in Bucharest, then continued to work mainly as a director of photography on fiction and documentary projects. For the past 10 years she’s been shooting projects internationally with film directors and contemporary artists alike, such as: Mondkopf, Louis Henderson, Emilija Skarnulyte, Ulla von Brandenburg, Peter Snowdon, among many others.
She debuted as a director in 2017 and her films screened in international festivals like: Locarno Film Festival, Berlinale Forum Expanded, IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, BFI London Film Festival Experimenta, Chicago International Film Festival, etc.
Filmography [IMDb]:
Vulcão: O Que Sonha um Lago? (2019), 16mm, 21’
Le Silence des sirènes (2019), 16mm, 34’
What Time is Made Of (2017), 16mm, 10’
Gylfaginning – The Deluding of King Gylfi (2017), 16mm, 18’
Interview in MUBI Notebook “What Time is Made Of: A Discussion with Diana Vidrascu”
Interview in Vdrome with Guilherme Blanc: “Volcano: What does a Lake Dream?”
Distributed by: Collectif Jeune Cinéma Paris, Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst Berlin.
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