About — Diana Vidrascu

Diana Vidrascu (1987) is a filmmaker based in Paris. Working with film, photography and installation, Diana Vidrascu questions the narrative devices of cinema by challenging the limits of visual discourse and the codes of film genres.

After studying Cinematography at the National Film Academy in Bucharest, she worked mainly as a director of photography on fiction and documentary projects but also developed a practice in experimental film restoration and preservation, with a focus on small gauge formats. For the past 10 years she’s been shooting projects internationally with film directors and contemporary artists alike, such as: Tizian Büchi, Dónal Foreman, Louis Henderson, Emilija Skarnulyte, Ulla von Brandenburg, Peter Snowdon, among others.

She debuted as a film director in 2017 and her films screened at international festivals like: Locarno Film Festival, Berlinale Forum Expanded, IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, BFI London Film Festival Experimenta, Chicago International Film Festival, receiving the 2024 Images Toronto For the Love of Celluloid Award and the 2019 Visual Science Award at Image Science New York Festival.

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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