“Shot Reverse Shot”
In 1985-1987, the American journalist Edward Serotta visited the
Communist Romania and took photos of the harsh realities of the
country. The Secret Police (Securitate) followed him and secretly
took photos of him taking photos. 40 year later, we put together
the two sets of images, a shot-reverse shot about the comic side
of History.
About the directors
RADU JUDE is a Romanian film director and screenwriter known for his incisive and unconventional explorations of history, memory, and social identity. His feature debut, The Happiest Girl in the World (2009), premiered to wide acclaim and was selected for more than 50 international film festivals. He went on to direct a series of highly praised films, including Everybody in Our Family (2012), Aferim! (2015), Scarred Hearts (2016), I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018), and Uppercase Print (2020). Each of these works earned numerous awards and established Jude as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary European cinema. In 2021, his provocative satire Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, further cementing his international reputation. His following film, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023), received the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival. His feature, Kontinental ’25, a low-budget independent production, was honored with the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 2025 Berlinale, while his most recent Dracula won the Second Prize of the Junior Jury Award at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival. In recognition of his bold and innovative body of work, the Centre Pompidou in Paris presented a comprehensive retrospective of Radu Jude’s films, celebrating his contributions to contemporary cinema and his continual reinvention of film form and narrative.
ADRIAN CIOFLÂNCĂ Born in Piatra Neamt, Romania in 1974. His work as a historian focuses chiefly on the Holocaust, communism and political violence. He is director of the ”Wilhelm Filderman” Center for the Study of Jewish History in Romania and member of the Collegium of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives. Adrian Cioflâncă has been a consultant on several films and theatre plays and co-authored several short documentaries for the Romanian Public Television. Two of his films, co-directed with Radu Jude – The Exit of the Trains (2020) and Memories from the Eastern Front (2022) – had its world premiere at Berlinale.