A video for me is a moving painting. I enjoy using transparency through the use of different layers, all elements, drawings, images are assembled like in brash strokes of paint. My intention is to achieve a video comparable to something hand made, more natural and closer to real emotions and profound ideas. Most of the elements used in each video come from a profound introspection, with the deep desire for evolution and growth. It is a search in which I incorporate images from my life’s journey, I try to create my own poetics and symbolism. There are many recurring elements and themes all connected to a life’s journey. What I associate here are the elements of loneliness and togetherness, the need of the one or the other to be caught up in different states of desire, need/wanting/wait. The view of the sea is seen as a primordial element but always pierced by a boat that is the expression of life’s journey and also of its passing, it represents the transitional element into the two worlds. The mountain and the rock express the stability, the other primordial energies that the earth gives us are there, it is also our propulsion force. All reflections and projections of different states of waiting are condensed in the wait to make a next step. Despair and hope are both parts of the same journey. The mystery of life is the carousel which we all board and discover a secret and find innocence and butterflies. It can also be quite confining, like a fish that tries to escape his cup and goes deeper into the water but we all wish to see enlightenment in the end of a pyramid. All can be at peace, with trees and blue sky and people make children and children make hopes. Maybe the city can become a different fresco or a more delicate Japanese stamp. It is all recreated through creativity and the need to invent and finding the right way to use it. As angels can guide us we should just learn to listen.
moreA video for me is a moving painting. I enjoy using transparency through the use of different layers, all elements, drawings, images are assembled like in brash strokes of paint. My intention is to achieve a video comparable to something hand made, more natural and closer to real emotions and profound ideas. Most of the elements used in each video come from a profound introspection, with the deep desire for evolution and growth. It is a search in which I incorporate images from my life’s journey, I try to create my own poetics and symbolism. There are many recurring elements and themes all connected to a life’s journey. What I associate here are the elements of loneliness and togetherness, the need of the one or the other to be caught up in different states of desire, need/wanting/wait. The view of the sea is seen as a primordial element but always pierced by a boat that is the expression of life’s journey and also of its passing, it represents the transitional element into the two worlds. The mountain and the rock express the stability, the other primordial energies that the earth gives us are there, it is also our propulsion force. All reflections and projections of different states of waiting are condensed in the wait to make a next step. Despair and hope are both parts of the same journey. The mystery of life is the carousel which we all board and discover a secret and find innocence and butterflies. It can also be quite confining, like a fish that tries to escape his cup and goes deeper into the water but we all wish to see enlightenment in the end of a pyramid. All can be at peace, with trees and blue sky and people make children and children make hopes. Maybe the city can become a different fresco or a more delicate Japanese stamp. It is all recreated through creativity and the need to invent and finding the right way to use it. As angels can guide us we should just learn to listen. less
This film was shot in various locations. The original idea was filmed, edited, directed and produced by Andreea Costenco.
moreThis film was shot in various locations. The original idea was filmed, edited, directed and produced by Andreea Costenco. less
By: Andreea
Artist Biography
Andreea Costenco
Andreea Costenco started her career as an artist with a Diploma in Fashion design in her native Bucharest and continued to achieve a degree in Fine Arts from the University there. She has also recently completed a Masters in Scenography at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London. Recent works include “Something about Lysistrata” an installation and performance at the Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo, Sicily and a short (6 min) experimental video called “World Story” shown at the Uncut short film event at the ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts London (Previously exhibited at the CineMAiubit Festival at the Cinema Studio in Bucharest). In 2002 she put on an installation and intervention exhibition entitled I Love NY at the Eforie Gallery in Bucharest which was later shown as a multimedia exhibition at the Fulbright Commission in Bucharest.
As a painter Andreea has exhibited at “Young Colours – Young Painting Today” at the Art Expo/ National Theatre of Romania and she exhibited “Looking for Mr Green” at the Rumanisches Kulturinstitut Titu Maiorescu in Berlin. In 2002 she put on an exhibition entitled Metamorfosi at the Instituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica in Venice. Other exhibitions have been in Tel Aviv and Herteliyya in Israel.
As a designer she designed the set and costumes for a prestigious 2002 production of Caragiale’s “A stormy Night” at the Bulandra Theatre, also shown at the National Festival of Theatre “Ion Luca Caragiale”, XII Edition in Bucharest.
Andreea has devoted the last two years to applying her fine-art background to various video production and editing projects. She has also recently set up a company that accepts commissions for any kind of project to which her art, design and video-making skills might be applied.
Artist Biography
Andreea Costenco
Andreea Costenco started her career as an artist with a Diploma in Fashion design in her native Bucharest and continued to achieve a degree in Fine Arts from the University there. She has also recently completed a Masters in Scenography at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London. Recent works include “Something about Lysistrata” an installation and performance at the Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo, Sicily and a short (6 min) experimental video called “World Story” shown at the Uncut short film event at the ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts London (Previously exhibited at the CineMAiubit Festival at the Cinema Studio in Bucharest). In 2002 she put on an installation and intervention exhibition entitled I Love NY at the Eforie Gallery in Bucharest which was later shown as a multimedia exhibition at the Fulbright Commission in Bucharest.
As a painter Andreea has exhibited at “Young Colours – Young Painting Today” at the Art Expo/ National Theatre of Romania and she exhibited “Looking for Mr Green” at the Rumanisches Kulturinstitut Titu Maiorescu in Berlin. In 2002 she put on an exhibition entitled Metamorfosi at the Instituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica in Venice. Other exhibitions have been in Tel Aviv and Herteliyya in Israel.
As a designer she designed the set and costumes for a prestigious 2002 production of Caragiale’s “A stormy Night” at the Bulandra Theatre, also shown at the National Festival of Theatre “Ion Luca Caragiale”, XII Edition in Bucharest.
Andreea has devoted the last two years to applying her fine-art background to various video production and editing projects. She has also recently set up a company that accepts commissions for any kind of project to which her art, design and video-making skills might be applied.
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