DoerCast Episode 3 - Dumitru Gorzo

My first contact with Dumitru Gorzo's work happened in 2003, when I saw some weird cocoons invade the center of Bucharest. I found out, afterwards, what they were and who was responsible, and laughed at the way the media presented them. And the rest is history.

Dumitru Gorzo is a unique artist in Romania's landscapes: he is a shocking appeareance, but never shocks just for the sake of it; he is controversial, which is just another way of saying he provokes people to think; he is a truly original artist; and he is very hardworking, doing a lot of work, and having at least one significant personal exhibition a year.

We had the great pleasure of talking to Mr. Gorzo one cold winter evening, after he received a prize from Cuvantul cultural magazine, on Calea Victoriei, in the little park that is found next to the ugly big monument. We're truly sorry for the cold.

The discussion wanders for about 45 minutes from Rostopasca, the village, brands and Romania's new law on religious cults, to pornography, masters and apprentices in art and not only, evolution, street art, communism, and the Romanian Orthodox Church. It ends with Sex Pistols' I am an anarchist.

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Photos taken from Metropotam. (uninspired) photo-editing by alex.

DoerCast Episode 2 - Mihai Mitrica

Cu o intarziere care se datoreaza mai ales sarbatorilor, iata si cel de-al doilea episod al podcast-ului nostru. De data aceasta, “la microfon” se afla Mihai Mitrica, unul dintre fondatorii asociatiei Este'N'Est. Noi l-am cunoscut pe Mihai drept "omul din spatele Anim'Estului", asa ca am discutat cu el despre povestea primului festival romanesc de animatie de anvergura, despre oitza de pe afisul Anim'Est, despre animatia romaneasca si despre planurile pentru editia urmatoare. Si am mai discutat si despre celelalte proiecte foarte interesante pe care le pregateste Este'N'Est: Fest'Asia (festivalul filmului asiatic) si Sibiu Film Fest, care va combina filmele mute cu orchestra live.

Ii multumim mult lui Mihai, de care vom mai auzi cu siguranta, si speram sa strangem cat mai multi oameni dornici sa il ajute sa duca la bun sfarsit aceste proiecte si sa inceapa si altele. Si multumim si prietenilor de la Oricum, in bucataria carora am inregistrat.

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