Sample City, 2003, video 12’ (proiezione speciale Cinema 7B)
Sample City esplora la multiforme realtà urbana di Bucarets, usando come guida un personaggio tratto da un’antico racconto rumeno. Il personaggio (Balkan Tijl) percorre la città caricando una porta sulle spalle, simbolo di migrazione e di architetture mobili. La colonna sonora è un mix di varie sub-culture: dai lamenti delle orchestre gipsy, alle influenze del folklore orientale, all’hip-hop e drum-’n-base.

Sample City is exploring the multi-layered reality of the Bucharest cityscape, using as a guiding agent the contemporary impersonation of a character from an old Romanian folk tale. Sort of Balkan Tijl Uilenspiegel, he is carrying a door on his back, becoming thus a migrant architecture endlessly wandering through the city. The original sound track is a club mix of various subcultures, from Gypsy lautar (peasant migrating into café concert) orchestra, to manele (urban folklore with Oriental influences), to local hip-hop and drum-’n-bas