Four Shorts from Radu Jude
Presenting four short films from Radu Jude. Sex, politics, and Barbie dolls: the Romanian maestro is at his outlandish best in these career-spanning miniature marvels. From the tender realism of his award-winning debut short The Tube with a Hat (2006), via the experimental historical documentary The Marshal’s Two Executions (2018) and the Toy Story-gone-wrong dreamworld of Plastic Semiotic (2021), all the way to the obscene satire of The Potemkinists (2023).
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The Tube with a Hat
Directed by Radu Jude • 2006 • Romania
Radu Jude’s debut short announced a major filmmaking talent to the world back in 2006, winning at Sundance and Cottbus. A father and son haul a battered old TV set through mud and rain to the nearest town, hoping to get it fixed in time for a Bruce Lee film...
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The Marshal’s Two Executions
Directed by Radu Jude • 2018 • Romania
In 1946, Romania’s wartime dictator and Nazi collaborator Marshal Ion Antonescu was executed, alongside three other officials. The incident was captured by amateur cameraman Ovidiu Gologan. In 1994, director Sergiu Nicolaescu recreated the scene for his per...
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Plastic Semiotic
Directed by Radu Jude • 2021 • Romania
Radu Jude is at his mischievous best in this striking short that sets out to tell the story of human life – from birth to old age – entirely through carefully constructed dioramas of childrens’ toys. Barbie dolls and plastic dinosaurs coexist with communist...
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The Potemkinists
Directed by Radu Jude • 2023 • Romania
The Potemkinists crams everything we love about Radu Jude into 18 minutes: playful deconstruction of national myth, deep knowledge of film history, and plenty of satirical obscenity. In 2021, a sculptor (Alexandru Dabija) brings a cultural bureaucrat (Crist...
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Notes on the short films of Radu Jude
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