Saturday, 7 October, 4pm, Casa TIFF
Free entrance (based on availability)
TEETH, after Matei Vișniec's play, film director: Rareș Stoica - followed by a Q&A session with the author, director and the main actors.
Based on the play „Teeth" by: Matei Vișniec
A film by: Rareș Stoica
With: Radu Văduva, Andrei Zagorodnîi, Cătălin Codreanu
Music by: Dragoș Strat, Makeup artist: Camelia Curuțiu-Zoicaș, Casting consultant: Diana Aldea, Set design consultant: Mihai Filip Odangiu, Project supervisor: Ioan Pop-Curșeu, Directors of photography: Rareș Stoica, Andrei Giurgiuman, 3D modelling: Marius Caraba,Project coordinator: Ștefana Pop-Curșeu representing TNC and FTT, Script supervisor: Ștefana Pop-Curșeu, Student coordinators: Cătălin Codreanu, Mihai Filip Odangiu,
Executive producer: Nicoleta Stoica
Producer: Persona Media Production, in association with the Faculty of Theater and Television within Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca and The National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca.
Matei Visniec is one of the most famous and appreciated contemporary Romanian playwrights. His plays are staged in theatres all over the world, being inspired by the reality but also by the absurdity of recent history.The National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca has opened its stage to a large number of his plays among which: How to explain the history of communisn to mental patients, Attic in Paris with a view to death, The spectator sentenced to death, Richard III will not take place.
The Teeth, play published in.... has been a source of inspiration for the young film diector Rareș Stoica who has been attracted not only by the theatricality of the text but also by its incredible capacity to free the imagination of the reader, generate tension and strong images with a quite simple dialogue as a starting point. It is thus on the structure of the play that the film is based, following the story, or better said, the last episode of the story of an encounter. Two men, who take off golden teeth from the dead soldiers' mouths, found themselves on the same battelfield surrounded by hundreds of frozen corpses. But their usual monotonous activity is interrupted by the appearance of a strange soldier, coming too late to be of the battle, too sleepy to be alive but too warm to be dead. A mere thorn in their side. Trying to find a way to deal with the newcomer and being on the edge of patience, confronted with the nonsense of their situation, the two thieves cross unknowingly the borders f space and time, heading towards another dimension. Whose fault is it that things happen the way they happen? Can we hold on to our humanity despite the terrible conditions at the crossroads of life and death? Teeth is a film that straightly confronts the spectator with the limits of earthly existence, developping in depth the subtility of Visniec's thought. With cruelty, in the Artaudian meanig, but also with much poetry.
