AGORAPHOBIA
Cezara, a 20-year-old Romanian waitress employee slowly starts acknowledging her disturbing routine. She finds herself in a trigger point of her life where the docile social awkwardness transforms into agoraphobia and takes over.
About Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is a type of anxiety disorder. A person with agoraphobia is afraid to leave environments they know or consider to be safe. In severe cases, a person with agoraphobia considers their home to be the only safe environment.
Typically, agoraphobia often starts off as a mild anxiety about a particular event, place or situation that escalates over time into a generalized fear of being in public. The symptoms and signs of agoraphobia may include: Symptoms of significant anxiety and sometimes a panic attack such as breathlessness, sweating, dizziness, fast heart rate, sensation of choking and feelings of extreme fear or dread. Low self-esteem and loss of self-confidence.
CREDITS
Produced by miroimages in collaboration with Nisi Masa Europe
DIRECTOR
Miro Mastropasqua
SUBJECT
Andra Gheorghiu
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Giorgio Pitino
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
Irina Ghenu
SOUND FX
Coípan Eduard Stetan Nicu Gaburici
EDITORS
Miro Mastropasqua
Giorgio Pitino
VISUAL FX
Stefan Schultz
SOUND RECORDING
Irina Ghenu
SUBTITLES
Denisse Conn-Tubacu
CAST
Cezara Munteanu
Nicu Gaburici
Magda Gheorghiu
Anastasia Kovalchuk
Irina Ghenu
Andra Gheorghiu
Painting by Alina Anca
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Sorina Diaconu, Anastasia Kovalchuk, Robert Lawrence, Artidava Cultural Centre, Andrei Boanta,
Matei Catalina Eugenia, Restaurant Casa Noastra, Cooperativa De Arta, Doors Hostel Bucharest.
While in a coma, Paul is trapped in a never-seen-before world; somewhere between reality and fiction, between the conscious and the unconscious, between life – and his inner death. In the midst of the mysterious forest HAZOR, his shadow is escaping, leaving him behind and making him unable to awake from his coma. Paul has no recollection of what had happened, but deep down inside he feels a destructive guilt. Driven by these emotions, Paul goes on a quest to only dig deeper into his own subconsciousness and by doing so he gets involved in a conspiracy: a girl is manipulating his shadow in order to take her revenge and to kill him.
Biston Betularia is a moth that takes its name from the habit to rest on the trunks of birches, trees with white bark.
With the advent of the industrial revolution began to be released into the atmosphere large quantities of dust resulting dark from the combustion of coal, the main fuel for cars of that time. In the industrial areas, the bark of trees (including birch), began to become darker because of the carbon in the air. The effect of this environmental change, caused the melanic forms of the Biston betularia (ie melanic Biston, darker in color) that acquired an advantage camouflage on the clear one. The white biston betularia survived, but the darker one
rapidly became numerically dominant.
This phenomenon - known as industrial melanism - has been of great help in understanding the mechanisms of natural selection lighting and today he serves as a litmus test of pollution.
Exploring the history of this moth, Laura Gianetti and Miro Mastropasqua show us with this video the different nature of the transformation as an
art-ificial way to survive and as a result of human greed.
The title “everything makes sense in the reverse” is a quote from Jean Baudrillard’s book “Fragments. Cool memories III, 1990-1995”.
