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Radu Jude Discusses How Andy Warhol Film Began as a ‘Joke,’ Says Filmmakers Need to Be ‘Serious About TikTok’
Romanian director Radu Jude told filmmakers to start taking TikTok seriously during an in-conversation event at doc festival IDFA.
Jude’s conversation followed a double-bill screening of his two most recent films, “Sleep #2” and “Eight Postcards From Utopia.” The former is an impressionistic collage of live streams from Andy Warhol’s grave on the webcam network Earthcam and the latter, co-directed with philosopher Christian Ferencz-Flatz, consists of dozens of Romanian commercials made as the country transitioned from socialism to a capitalist democracy. The director added that Warhol is the only artist who answered the question of how to make films by saying “You take a camera, push a button and you have a film.” “The man is right, filmmaking could be that. The director highlighted the country joining the EU as “an important step” that remains vital today despite the growing spirit of “sovereignty” he recognizes in Europe and the world.
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