Horia Dumitra - writer/director, cinematographer, editor, and visual artist.

The philosopher-artist is my favourite archetype, and it's what I am. 




Working with a RED Raven camera.




I've been making films since 2005. I studied Film Directing and Screenwriting in Bucharest, Romania, receiving my Honours Bachelor's in Film Directing. I then studied Cinematography and Film Production in Dublin, Ireland, adding hands-on filming and lighting expertise to my repertoire.




I believe in Film as a high artform. Film can mediate our understanding of the transcendent, film can hint at the numinous. 

I'm an avid Ingmar Bergman fan, having studied closely his whole filmography, as well as those of Antonioni, Bresson, Tarkovsky, Haneke, von Trier, Kiarostami, Bela Tarr - these are my filmmaking heroes. 




I'm a fervent believer in the idea of 'auteur', and I'm always focusing on substance. I believe an artist always aims to create something transcendentally meaningful, that stands outside of era and province, and which posterity would declare as Art - but then again, why should one do anything for posterity since it's done squat for us.




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