Andrei Ujică (born 1951 in

Timișoara ), City of Roses ( ro, Orașul florilor), City of Parks ( ro, Orașul parcurilor) , image_map = Timisoara jud Timis.svg , map_caption = Location in Timiș County , pushpin_map = Romania#Europe , pushpin_ ...

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) is a Romanian screenwriter and director.

Life and work

Ujicǎ studied literature in Timișoara,

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

and

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. He moved to Germany in 1981. In 1990 he began making films. Together with

Harun Farocki Harun Farocki (9 January 1944 – 30 July 2014) was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. Early life and education Farocki was born as Harun El Usman FaroqhiMargalit Fox (3 August 2014)''New York Times''. in Neutitschein, which is n ...

, he created ''

Videograms of a Revolution ''Videograms of a Revolution'' is a 1992 documentary film compiled by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică from over 125 hours of amateur footage, news footage, and excerpts from the Bucharest TV studio overtaken by demonstrators as part of the Dec ...

'', a film which has become a standard work in Europe when referring to relationships between political power and the media and the end of the Cold War, and which was listed by the magazine '' Cahiers du Cinéma'' as one of the top 10 subversive films of all time. His next work, '' Out of the Present'', told the story of the cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov who spent 10 months on board

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, while back on Earth, the

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collapsed. The film has been compared to classics such as ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' and ''Solaris'' and is considered one of the non-fiction cult films of the 1990s. His 2005 project, ''Unknown Quantity'', creates a fictional conversation between Paul Virilio and

Svetlana Alexievich Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suf ...

, author of "Voices from Chernobyl", exploring the witness's protocol and the generation of history into catastrophe. In 2001, Ujicǎ became a professor for film at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. He founded the ZKM Film Institute in 2002 and is its director.

Filmography

* 1992: ''

'' (director) * 1992: ''Kamera und Wirklichkeit'' (director and screenwriter) * 1995: '' Out of the Present'' (director and screenwriter) * 2000: ''2 Pasolini' * 2005: ''Unknown Quantity'' * 2010: '' The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ujica, Andrei 1951 births Writers from Timișoara Romanian film directors German documentary film directors Romanian emigrants to West Germany Living people