Originating from a film background and drawing on personal experiences in a post-communist country, I am interested in the positionality of various apparatuses, particularly institutions and machinery, and their dynamics of power. Apparatus Theory informs my exploration of cinema as a machinery that shapes the relationship between viewer and subject, focusing on psychological and ideological processes, as discussed by theorists like Christian Metz and Jean-Louis Baudry.

Growing up in the early 2000s, technology greatly influenced me. My memories of digital experiences—from computer games to home filming devices—inform my current aesthetic practice. This exploration is further informed by Bogdan Jitea’s book, “Cinema within the Socialist Republic of Romania,” which examines the cinematic apparatus during Romanian Communism. My work reflects on themes of communist trauma, societal failures, and the glamorization of weaponry in 2000s video games, all part of my heritage. 

Currently, my interdisciplinary work involves creating video art that reimagines narratives through the apparatus and additionally exploring sculpture. I aim to facilitate reimagination in video experiments, guiding viewers conceptually. Each idea starts with speculation, adapted into digital reality through video, allowing me to reconstruct and convey information. I see sculpture and video as similar means of altering the physical realm and exploring different bodily possibilities. 

Re-imagining reality and using found objects in my sculptural project are ways of creating non-linear stories, looking at and critiquing the socio-political landscape and across my practice, exploring the dynamics of power, control, and positionality—whether through the relationship between camera and subject, human and machine, or performer and audience. I am moving away from traditional cinema towards a non-linear, expanded form of cinema. My goal is to create works that are accessible and that critique the machinery of filmmaking, whether that be the cinema itself or institutional practices.