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Five Times Bucharest/ Olivia Mihălțianu & How to Make Your First Million/ Bogdan Costin

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Five Times Bucharest/ Olivia Mihălțianu & How to Make Your First Million/ Bogdan Costin

Film screening and public reading

Tuesday, 18 February 2014, 7 pm
tranzit. ro/ București, Str. Gazelei, nr. 44, sector 4

Five Times Bucharest is a three channel video realized by Olivia Mihălțianu in 2007, which follows the life and destiny of five characters in a close relation with the development, history and the new social structures of their home city. The characters are a “nouveau riche” girl, an engineer, a retired woman, a young lawyer and a senior intellectual. They are not connected to each other but could be considered as representative samples of the new Romanian society.

How to Make Your First Million, the novel published by Bogdan Costin in 2013 presents a series of typologies, strident but totally plausible as they are actual; the characters are drawn on the background of a daily and sensational Bucharest, which is not even by far motivational, as the title seems to misleadingly suggest.
The economic crisis in 2008 separates the time frames in which the two works are placed. We invite you to discuss together about how much the crisis has interrupted or only emphasized a series of traits which define these familiar portraits.

The event is part of the series “/ Bucureşti”, a programme which aims at contributing with artistic perspectives to the current debates on the city of Bucharest, seen in an East-European and global context.

Olivia Mihălțianu was born in Bucharest in 1981. Lives and works in Bucharest. Her recent works are inter-disciplinary projects on personal social and cultural identity, including different techniques: video, film, photographs, objects, installations and performance.

Bogdan Costin, born in 1975, he is senior copywriter. In his free time he wrote theatre plays: Stuck in traffic, 2007 and Why we hate women, 2011. The novel How to make your first million is his prose debut.


Thanks to: Daria Ghiu


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