Festival 2009Corneliu Porumboiu presents

OUT OF THE PRESENT RUPT DE PREZENT
Documentary Specification	Biography / Biografie
trailer not available OUT OF THE PRESENT RUPT DE PREZENT Out of the present Andrei Ujica, Harun Farocki Germany 1995 96' Written and Directed: Andrei Ujica Director of Photography: 35mm Space Shots, Vadim Yusov Editing: Andrei Ujica, Ralf Henninger, Heidi Leihbecher, Svetlana Ivanova Production: Bremer Institut Film/Fernsehen Coproduction: WDR, la sept/arte, RTBF, St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studios, Harun Farocki Filmproduktion	ANDREI UJICA Andrei Ujică Born in Timişoara, Romania (1951). Studied literature in Timisoara, Bucharest and Heidelberg. Publications at various intervals since 1968 include prose, poetry and essays. He has been living in Germany since 1981. In 1990, after having made a detour into theory, he decided to make films. Născut la Timişoara (1951). Studii de litere la Timişoara, Bucureşti şi Heidelberg. Din 1968, publică, la intervale mai lungi sau mai scurte, proză, poezie, eseistică. Trăieşte în Germania din 1981. Face film din 1990.
	Filmography / Filmografie
	1992 - Videogramme einer Revolution (Videograms of a Revolution) 1995 - Out of the Present 2000 - 2 Pasolini 2005 - Unknown Quantity
	Awards / Premii
	48. Festival Internazionale del Film Locarno, world première États généraux du film documentaire Lussas Filmfest Hamburg 38. Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm Duisburger Filmwoche 36. Festival dei popoli Firenze, Prize for the Best Research (1995) 25th International Film Festival Rotterdam International Film Festival ‚Cinema e Storia’ - San Marino, Special Prize of the Jury International Film Festival in Sochi 43rd Sydney Film Festival 7ème Festival International du Cinéma Documentaire - Marseille International Film Festival Karlovy Vary 25th Wellington Film Festival, 28th Auckland International Film Festival 6. Festival de Films Aubervilliers 20 Mostra Internacional de Cinema Sao Paolo Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema Pesaro 7th Ljubljana International Film Festival (1996) Festival de Cannes, Festival international du Film d'Environnement Paris, Grand Prix (1997) 2nd International Environmental Film Festival Bodrum, Special Prize of the Jury (1998) International Film Festival Rotterdam (2008)

Synopsis / Sinopsis

Out of The Present is regarded as being the non-fiction cult film of the nineties. Celebrated throughout the world, this montage film uses mainly documentary video material of a space mission to tell the story of Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev in diary-form, from May 1991 when he set out for the MIR space station where he was to remain for ten months – twice as long as planned. He is the first person to have been able to observe the end of a historical era from the vantage point of the gods. During the time he spent in space, the August coup took place in Moscow which was to result in the collapse of the Soviet Union. By the time Krikalev returned to Earth in March 1992, his country was called Russia.

Despre filmul lui Ujică, Out of the Present (Rupt de prezent), se spune că este documentarul-cult al anilor ’90 şi a fost apreciat ca atare în toate ţările prin care a călătorit. Filmul se bazează în mare măsură pe material documentar video înregistrat în timpul unei misiuni spaţiale. Construit ca un jurnal, documentarul îl urmăreşte pe cosmonautul sovietic Serghei Krikalev începînd din mai 1991, cînd porneşte într-o misiune pe staţia spaţială MIR. Avea să rămînă acolo 10 luni, timp în care pe Pămînt se întîmpla lovitura de stat din Moscova, care a însemnat începutul sfîrşitului pentru Uniunea Sovietică. Se poate spune că Krikalev a fost primul om care a văzut sfîrşitul unei ere de acolo de unde ne privesc zeii. În martie 1992, s-a întors pe Pămînt, dar nu în Uniunea Sovietică, ci în Rusia.

ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2009

Programming / Programare
Wednesday 28 - Hall A - 19h00 / Miercuri 28 - Hall A - 19h00

Films in THE NEW WAVE AND THE DOCUMENTARIES Special Program
Filme in Programul Special NOUL VAL SI FILMUL DOCUMENTAR
OUT OF THE PRESENT , Andrei Ujica, Harun Farocki, Germany
THE STORE , Frederick Wiseman, USA

FESTIVAL PROGRAM

film screenings

AFF09 Film Program (.pdf)

Mo.26 | Tu.27 | We.28 | Th.29

Fr.30 | Sa.31 | Su.01

events

Mo.26 - Su.01

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