The definite experience that drove me towards trying to express myself with visual moving pictures was seeing „Space Odyssey“ with 16-17 years in a shabby romanian cinema in a small town.
I first started making short movies, that can be seen more as small experiments then films in themselves and then quickly discovered my interest for documentaries. Slowly getting nearer the documentary style of cinematic language through a few short documentary films and then by beeing an assistant director and reporter on 2 longer documentary films both shot in Romania. Working as a crew member on these 2 films helped me immensly in understanding how to approach protagonists, how to select vital moments from the life happening around you to tell a story. I strongly believe that every film should tell a story especially a documentary. A story of a life, a moment , a situation or maybe even the story of an emotion or a process.
Armed with this knowledge and having found a subject which I felt was perfect, I went on to shoot my first 50 min documentary „The Time Machine“. This was an intense experience as I shot it in different periods over almost 2 years. and I got to know and observe the protagonist very closely.
At the moment I am developing 2 different documentary an fiction projects both of them dealing with border crossing and the way it affects the destinies of people.
It is no coincidence that I have a chosen this subject.It is linked with my personal experience as a foreigner „Ausla?nder“ living in Germany. After discovering my interest for this subject I started to see that the situation of beeing a foreigner occurs in everyday life aswell, you don't necessarily need to go to a different country to be a foreigner. One can be a foreigner/outsider in ones own homeland in different situations. This is what I would like to investigate with my next films.
