Ubi Bene Ibi Patria, Luiza Parvu’s MFA thesis feature documentary film, produced by Root Films, and made in collaboration with Toma Peiu, has been awarded three prestigious competitive post-production grants from New York University Tisch School of the Arts: The Martin E. Segal Prize; the Alan Landsburg Documentary Production Award, and the Lora Hays Award for Documentary Editing.
Read moreLuiza Parvu and Toma Peiu present at Surveil / Surveilled: MDOCS Festival / Symposium 2018
Luiza Parvu and Toma Peiu feature among the speakers invited at Surveil / Surveilled, this year’s MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute Forum, at Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY). The Forum runs June 7th - 10th, and will bring a group of groundbreaking scholars, activists and practitioners together with the participants in the Institute, a summer long competitive opportunity for a small group of college students interested in documentary art and practice.
Read moreArt, beyond genre: lessons from the performance of political failure - presentation at Art, Materiality and Representation @ RAI - British Museum - June 2018
Toma Peiu will deliver a presentation titled “Art, beyond genre: lessons from the performance of political failure”, as a part of a conversation on Notions of Failure in Art and Anthropology at Art, Materiality and Representation, the biennial conference organized by the Royal Anthropological Institute, the British Museum and the Department of Anthropology at SOAS, London, (June 1st - 3rd, 2018).
Read moreKnowing the River: a transdisciplinary flash-study - Shamaldy-Sai, Kyrgyzstan, April 26-30, 2018
Toma Peiu and Alice F. Hill, 2018 NEST Graduate Fellows, were among the 19 participants in Knowing the Naryn River, a Transdisciplinary Flash Study held in Shamaldy Say, Kyrgyzstan, 26th-30th April 2018, as a part of the three- year long research project The “Social Life” of a River: environmental histories, social worlds and conflict resolution along the Naryn-Syr Darya, run under the lead of Dr. Jeanne Féaux de la Croix (University of Tübingen), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
Read moreNew installation work @ Uncommon Histories / Boulder - May 2nd, 2018
Toma Peiu and Luiza Parvu premiere two video & sound installations as a part of Uncommon Histories - an exploratory exhibition hosted by the Department of Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Read moreWater - Dust among inaugural NEST Fellowship recipients
Water - Dust, a collaboration between Alice F. Hill, a physical geographer, hydrologist and post-doctoral student at the National Snow & Ice Data Center, and Toma Peiu, a visual artist, ethnographer and media scholar, and a doctoral student in the Department of Critical Media Practices, is among the three projects awarded full funding as a part of the 2018 Graduate Fellowship Program run by NEST (Nature, Environment, Science and Technology) Studio for the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Read moreSisyphus 2.0 @ docLAHOMA, OKC
Sisyphus 2.0 screens at the docLAHOMA Film Festival in Oklahoma City - Sunday, January 14th, at 3:45, at the Paramount Theater.
Read moreRedemption Room and Sisyphus 2.0 show at CU Boulder
Sisyphus 2.0 screens in The Hague, Netherlands
Sisyphus 2.0 will screen in The Hague, on October 27th and 28th, 2017 at the 3rd FILM & EXPERIMENT – Spotlight: Romania. The piece will run in a program of curated highlights from recent editions of the Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (BIEFF). Sisyphus 2.0 won the Best Romanian Filmmaker Award at BIEFF 2017.
Read moreCivilians competes at Astra Film Festival
Toma Peiu will present Civilians in the International Short Film competition of the 2017 edition of the Astra Film Festival, running from October 16-22nd in Sibiu, Romania.
Read moreArabidopsis thaliana screens at Iran International Green Film Festival
Short documentary essay film Arabidopsis thaliana (dir. Toma Peiu, Nicholas DelRose, 2016) will premiere internationally at the 6th Iran International Green Film Festival in Tehran, running from September 9th – 16th.
Read moreSisyphus 2.0 and Start Anew World screen in Queens, NYC
Sisyphus 2.0 and Start Anew World screen at the 2017 Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema. August 10th and 11th, in Queens, New York.
Read moreSisyphus 2.0 screens at NexT IFF
Sisyphus 2.0 returns to Bucharest this June, for the 11th NexT International Film Festival (June 22-26th).
Read moreCivilians premieres at Cinemambiente Torino
Root Films short documentary Civilians will have a world premiere in the Panorama section of the 20th Cinemambiente International Environmental Film Festival in Turin, Italy (May 31st - June 5th).
Read moreArabidopsis thaliana featured in "Adding Film to The Science Syllabus" series
Arabidopsis thaliana was recently included in Madison Moore's short list of films recommended to interdisciplinary-minded high-school science instructors and students.
Read moreSisyphus 2.0 wins award at 7th Bucharest IEFF
Luiza Pârvu and Toma Peiu were presented with the Best Romanian Filmmaker Award for their short film "Sisyphus 2.0", at the 7th Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival - the country's premiere showcase for avant-garde cinematic work.
Read moreSisyphus 2.0 screening at BIEFF 2017
Luiza Pârvu and Toma Peiu's short film Sisyphus 2.0 is playing in the International Competition of the 7th Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (March 27th - April 3rd, Bucharest, Romania).
Read moreFailure Is Human: a research practice presentation @ NYU Cinema Studies
Toma Peiu will deliver a presentation titled “Failure and Redemption in the public eye: a critical practice approach”, as a part of the panel Excavating Histories: Archive—Memory—Media at “What Now?” - the New York University Cinema Studies Graduate Conference.
Read moreLabocine Spotlight with Toma Peiu
Toma interviews on the past and present of Root Films and Arabidopsis thaliana.
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