Archive of films Mammalia / Mammalia
Synopsis
Camil can’t cope with the world around him – which comes as no surprise, given that events take an unexpected turn at every opportunity. Sebastian Mihăilescu’s feature debut might seduce us with its parallels with the whacky films of Quentin Dupieux, or with the poetic charm of stylised banality familiar from the work of Roy Andersson, and in places it might seem to have emerged from the Black Lodge in Twin Peaks. Yet Mihăilescu creates his own poetics in which abstraction encounters the kind of ominousness that paralyses us in real life. Expressive moments conflict with familiar feelings of dejection. An imaginative, zany film which gives the impression someone might have tried to sedate it with ketamine.
Viktor Palák
About the director
Sebastian Mihăilescu (1983, Făgăraș, Romania). Filmography: Titza (2012, short), Honeymoon (2014, short), An Ambiguous Geographical Area, But, for Now, Let’s Call It a Delta (2016, short), You Are Ceaușescu to Me (2021), Mammalia (2023).
Contacts
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About the film
Color, DCP
Section: | Imagina |
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Director: | Sebastian Mihăilescu |
Screenplay: | Andrei Epure, Sebastian Mihăilescu |
Dir. of Photography: | Barbu Bălășoiu |
Music: | Piotr Kurek |
Sound: | Alin Zăbrăuțeanu, Dragoș Cătărău |
Editor: | Cătălin Cristuțiu |
Art Director: | Anca Lazăr |
Producer: | Diana Paroiu, Ada Solomon |
Production: | microFILM |
Coproduction: | Extreme Emotions, Pandora Film |
Cast: | István Téglás, Mălina Manovici. Denisa Nicolae, Steliana Bălăcianu, Rolando Matsangos, Mirela Crețan, Andreea Gheorghe |
Sales: | Lights On FIlms |
Guests
Sebastian Mihăilescu
Film Director
Ada Solomon
Producer
István Téglás
Actor
Diana Caravia
Producer
Cătălin Cristutiu
Editor