World Premiere

Relying on oral and fragmentary histories, I Am Also Part of the Three Turns traces the effects of a destructive earthquake in Bucharest and a concurrent flood it caused in a small town in Buzau. In the capital, the destruction was seized as an opportunity by the authoritarian government to further raze large swaths of the city, invoking the earthquake as a mythological force in order to strategically replace rubble with new Soviet-bloc housing projects. Employing allegory as narrator, the film sketches a series of political congruences throughout a patchwork of intertwined landscapes, teasing out a temporally irresolute past that defies the linear cause-and-effect of both environmental disaster and authoritarian political repression.

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• Programm Programme: International Competition 2