Chronicle of an Exciting Summer, or Some of the Things that We Forgot about cinema-verité
The concern towards truth truly lies at the heart of “Chronicle of a Summer” (Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin, 1960), the question. “Can we, as humans, be truthful in front of the camera?” is the question that Rouch and Morin are asking of their protagonists.
In the early 90s, Solomon emerged as a young DOP and started making documentaries aside from filming feature films. His first long feature, The Great Communist Bank Robbery (2004), broadcast on Arte and on BBC's prestigious Storyville, was a multi-awarded hit. Kapitalism - our secret recipe (2010), a feature doc on the rise of a new ruling class in the East, was presented at IDFA and Sarajevo, while his latest long feature, Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife premiered in Karlovy Vary. In 2016 he published his monograph “Representations of Memory in Documentary Film”. Alexandru is teaching at the University of Arts in Bucharest and is the president of the One World Romania Association.
