The
video project of the artist Stefan Constantinescu has its starting point in
these questions: who am I,what was my childhood like in the “golden age” of
Ceausescu’s regime? He is presenting the 1968-2000 period from a more or less
autobiographical perspective concentrating on the automobile
Dacia
1300, symbol of “the modern working class”, of “the progress” and of “the
victory over the future”. The book is written by Ana Maria Zahariade and Tom
Sandqvist. Ana Maria Zahariade is writing about the pseudoarchitecture in Romania
in Ceasescu’s period while Tom Sandqvist describes the political basis as well
as the everyday life in the age of the communist regime. The film has 62 minutes
and it consists in old archive images, propaganda materials and 13 interviews
with the old neighbors from the building where the Constantinescu family used
to live in Colentina neighborhood, in Bucharest. Stefan Constantinescu is borne
in 1968, finishes his studies at the Art Academy in Bucharest in 1996 and since
1993 lives in Sweden. Between 1994 –1998 he studies at the Royal Art Academy
from Stockholm.