Dumnezeu la saxofon, dracu la vioara (2004)
43 min
Documentary | Short
Director: Alexandra Gulea
Writer: Alexandra Gulea
Stars: Adrian, Bicu, Filip
Country: Romania
Language: Romanian
A documentary made in Cinéma vérité style by Romanian director, Alexandra Gulea rolls her camera through the minds, corridor and rooms of Romanian psychiatric institution of Gura Ocnitei, somewhere in between Bucharest and Southern Carpathians. Even in the uninterrupted availability of basic needs, life of about 300 inhabitants is like a stagnant pool laden with green boredom. They are chained in the continuous overflow of time as seconds, minutes, hours, days...Living in their memories, carrying the burden of present and unable to think of future, forsaken by God and Devil.
To overcome this they are creating their own community inside the hospital (the outdoor visuals of hospital resembles that of Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979) based on Lem's novel ). They drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, married- trying to create ripples in their still green water.This is also an urge for endurance also a resistance towards the barricades that prevent the flow of wind into their minds from a parallel outside world.
Usage of photographic still video images in a greenish tone powerfully transmits stillness inside the minds in mental asylum. The documentary becomes an artistic brilliance when the images are stitched with discontinuous voices and music.
