Andrei Ujica

After completing his studies in Timișoara then Bucarest, as well as Heidelberg in Germany, he began his film career in the 1990s. He raises questions of history, particularly in his documentary trilogy on the fall of Communism and the mechanisms behind the power of the media: Videograms of a Revolution (1992), Out of the Present (1995) and The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010), which earned him international recognition.

In 2000, as part of the exhibition Le Désert, the Fondation Cartier invited Ujică to do a deep dive into the archives of Pier Paolo Pasolini for a project he developed in 2021, 2 Pasolini, an homage to Sopralluoghi in Palestina (a documentary on location hunting for The Gospel According to St. Matthew, created by the Italian filmmaker in 1964). In 2002, Ujică created the installation Unknown Quantity at the Fondation Cartier, which consisted of a fictional conversation between philosopher Paul Virilio and writer Svetlana Alexievitch, exploring the consequences of Chernobyl. His most recent project is Things We Said Today (2024), sponsored by the Fondation Cartier. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as at the exhibition Il Nostro Tempo, at the CinéFondationCartier at the Milan Triennale in 2024. The film is composed exclusively of a montage of period archives about the arrival of the Beatles in New York and their first concert at Shea Stadium.