Matei Bejenaru – Abyss

The visual poem Abyss explores the enigmatic and charismatic personality of  the dancer Irinel Liciu, first soloist of the Romanian Opera ballet in Bucharest in the 1950s-’60s. Shot on film and using archive footages and photos from the National Film Archive, Agerpress News Agency, and Secolul 21 Magazine archive, Abyss is an essay on the condition of the artist and the relationship with his/her art and life.

Credits and team

Directed by: Matei Bejenaru
With the participation of: Adina Cezar, Liana Tugearu, Ioan Tugearu
Music: Jean-Paul Dessy
Digital image and sound editing: Mihai-Marian Mina
Colorist: Mihai-Marian Mina
Narrator: Octavian Jighirgiu
Sound: Vlad Onescu
Kodak Vision3 film developed and scanned at Cinelabs Bucharest, Romania
Negative developing: Viorel Popescu
Negative preparation for scanning: Javier Gomez
Film scanning: Catalin Miloiu

Presentation dates

-       15 November 2019 – Premiere presentation at WASP Working Art Space and Production

-       3/8 December 2019 – Film screening at BOZAR, Brussels, in the frame of Europalia Arts Festival Romania

-       17 December 2019 / 12 January 2020 – Film screening at BOZAR, Brussels, in the frame of Europalia Arts Festival Romania