By Olivia Maria Hărşan
There is a relentless energy in Mihai
Salajan’s Libelula that interchanges
between moments of light and darkness. Focusing on documenting the underlying
concepts of existence and being, the film reveals to us a compilation of stills
and motion images that call for a metaphysical exploration of life. Accompanied
by a haunting soundtrack, Salajan’s portaits of mundanity – an old man arguing
with a tradesman, a cat grazing in the grass, a woman enjoying a meal in a
Chinese restaurant – these commonplace activities become sinister and
nauseating. Libelula accurately
documents daily life in the “cement boxes”— apartments that act as visual
reminders of the communist past. The narrator merely re-captures these flashes
of existence, what is now, juxtaposing them with artifacts of a bygone era,
what was… then.
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