“Do you know how the condor dies?”, Virginio, the protagonist of Utama (Our House), asks Clever, his nephew, who came in from the city. Old Virginio is very much preoccupied with this topic: he can feel his own death approaching, but, just like the shepherd at the center of the Romanian ballad Miorița (The Lambkin), he does nothing to prevent it, nor to even delay it, to his nephew’s exasperation.

Codrin Vasile

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He studied directing at UNATC, where he wrote articles for Film Menu. He also wrote his degree paper on D.A. Pennebaker’s early filmography. He is interested in analog photography and video art. He hopes for a Criterion release of Shrek 2. He makes movies.

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