Andrei Ujica (Timisoara, Romania, 1951) is a professor of Media Studies and the creator of films that are considered seminal classics in film history and that set a new landmark worldwide in the field of found footage. Videograms of a Revolution (co-directed with Harun Farocki in 1992) has become a milestone in terms of the relationship between the media and political power in Europe at the end of the Communist era. Out of the Present (1995) chronicles the prolonged space journey of Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev. It was compared to major films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey or Solaris and is the best-known non-fiction European film of the 1990s. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu (2010), which completes the trilogy dedicated to the end of Communism in Romania, has garnered numerous awards worldwide. His latest project, Things We Said Today (TWST), is the archival reconstruction of The Beatles’ most famous North American performance.
Andrei Ujica (Timisoara, Romania, 1951) is a professor of Media Studies and the creator of films that are considered seminal classics in film history and that set a new landmark worldwide in the field of found footage. Videograms of a Revolution (co-directed with Harun Farocki in 1992) has become a milestone in terms of the relationship between the media and political power in Europe at the end of the Communist era. Out of the Present (1995) chronicles the prolonged space journey of Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev. It was compared to major films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey or Solaris and is the best-known non-fiction European film of the 1990s. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu (2010), which completes the trilogy dedicated to the end of Communism in Romania, has garnered numerous awards worldwide. His latest project, Things We Said Today (TWST), is the archival reconstruction of The Beatles’ most famous North American performance.
