You Are Another Me - A Cathedral of the Body is the title of the
project that will represent Romania at the 59th edition of the Venice
Art Biennale. The work of the director and script writer Adina Pintilie, who
won the Golden Bear Trophy at the Berlin Film Festival in 2018 with her debut film
Touch Me Not, the project was selected following a national competition organised
by the ministry of culture, the foreign ministry and the Romanian Cultural
Institute. Attila Kim, Romania s Commissioner for the Venice Art Biennale,
tells us more:
The winner
was chosen after a competition that began last year and ended this year. The winner
was Adina Pintilie s project because it is a project that distances itself from
the medium we associated Adina Pintilie with, namely film, and that makes a
step closer to viewers, bringing the film much closer, deconstructing it and
inviting viewers to engage in a dialogue about intimacy and the relationship with
the body. This experience is