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give me a VIDEO CAMERA because ...(privat message),
and also because... (another privat message) and I will ...(again privat message) forever.

With LOVE,
nita

Amsterdam my love

still images from the film

project made by Nita Mocanu in collaboration with Gelu Gircz, Oana Petrugan and Marius Stoica

„ There were to many noises on the boulevard, cars, carriages, trams, restless people…I wandered on quite by-streets. After the clear roving during day time, the revenge was trying me out: a strange lucidity made me feel the soft floating of the earth with all what was on it. I was afraid that I could detach, to fall down, to fall up (it was the same). I was trying to move near the trees, the street lamps, the iron fences, anything that I could hang on to at need.”
Gellu Naum - "Zenobia"
(Romanian surrealist writer)
„ Amsterdam my love” is the name of a film that doesn’t exist in reality. The unwritten script is based on a walk description that is more or less imaginary: Amsterdam (Staatsliedenbuurt neighborhood)… is the place where the walk takes place and Arad is the place where this film could be shot. The photos that are real are the unique proofs and traces of this walk, of this film, only trough them “ Amsterdam my love” can exist as this fictional film and as my work.
The imaginary script provoked by these photos is based on the set of information of each of those viewing the work. Each person can have a distinct and unique imaginary story.
The photography is a static image, fixed, dislocated from a certain event that has an unknown beginning or ending. From this perspective, the photography is a singular proof or testimony of that event. Therefore, ones ability to reconstruct the event is always dynamic and provocative: starting off with a photo, there could be constructed multiple types of events in which that photo could be integrated as testimony.
The idea of this work started like this, I was reading the statistic received from Esther Vhoosen, and suddenly I realized that I’m imagining the statistics using my home town Arad as representation.
I was never in Amsterdam , so I can’t say how similar are the two towns, Arad and Amsterdam , but I think that they are confounding in each other in our imaginary worlds. The story in the photos is about the lives of three people in Amsterdam , their common lives among others. The imaginary film is the possible reconstructions of their lives and identity trough each of us.

Special thanks to Raluca Sida for the help