In February 2013, a friend was hired by Media Pro Pictures to teach an actor to mime the violin for the title role in a film and enlisted my help to lend him the instrument for the role.
At that time, I had finished working with a TV production company, and I wanted to get back into the field professionally.
As the negotiation with the producers regarding the commission for the use of the violin ran into a first barrier, that of the supposed lack of budget, I proposed to be accepted as a volunteer in the project, in exchange for this loan of props.
To my joy, the exchange was received with enthusiasm and thus, the violin played its small role naturally interpreted by Dragos Bucur in the film “Love is a Story”, directed by Cristina Iacob.
Like the title, so began my short but intense love affair with film production, and a few collaborations, certainly more productive than the initial commission, with people whose memories I hold dear to my heart; Cristina Iacob, Titi Radoaie, Radu Vaida Muntean, Andreea de Hillerin, and especially, the late Calin Papura.
The Violin was naturally a first choice for me. As a composer and trained musician, I can only have a curious yet critical view on movie scenes involving musical instruments and their usage. I watch for the correct positions, the music performed, the general approach both in the story and in the concrete usage of the object. In our digital era, a musical instrument is related strictly to the “analog” world, thus immediatly transporting us in a different dimension, the cultural heritage arround it – material and immaterial, being obvious and endearing. Bringin the violin into the exchibition, offers the viewer the posibillity of making sound, mind and soul connections to both arts – Sabina Ulubeanu, curator