Saturday, November 11 – 10:00, CRAFT – Centrul Regional de Afaceri Timisoara (22 Bulevardul Eroilor de la Tisa)
Animation, 77 min
Free Entrance
CineEuroConnect celebrates the Centenary of Gopo with a selection of rare short films by one of the greatest Romanian filmmakers of all time – Ion Popescu Gopo. He was a prominent figure in Romanian cinema and the founder of the modern Romanian school of animated filmmaking. Alongside Liviu Ciulei and Mirel Ilieșiu, he was one of the few Romanian artists who received awards at the Cannes Film Festival in the 20th century.
The slot includes 10 short films:
A Brief History (1957)
Duration: 3 min
Description: This 1957 Romanian short animation and Cannes Film Festival winner skilfully and with incredible artistic expression manages to condense the entire narrative of human evolutionary theory into a ten minute short film. Not only that, he eerily anticipates the communist triumph of the USSR launching the first man into space by a few years.
Seven Arts (1958)
Duration: 11 min
Description: Gopo’s little man presents the emergence of the arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, theater, dance, music and cinematography.
Homo sapiens (1960)
Duration: 9 min
Description: A few years before Kubrick in “2001”, although in a more farcical way, Ion Popescu-Gopo shows the evolution of a strange creature named man from the time he started to rub flint stones to nowadays when he has managed to split the atoms.
Intermezzo for an eternal love (1974)
Duration: 9 min
Description: The little man learns that the Earth is in danger of dying because of pollution.
Energica (1980)
Duration: 9 min
Description: The little man discovers oil and invents all sorts of machines including a female robot to satisfy his consumption needs.
Anima… Magic… Animagic (1980)
Duration: 8 min
Cadru cu cadru (1981)
Duration: 7 min
Pride ( 1982)
Duration: 5 min .
You (1983)
Duration: 7 min
The sorcerer’s apprentice (1985)
Duration: 9 min