Christian Popa

I am a young storyteller coming from Romania and currently living in Glasgow having many interests in the art world. I hold skills and experience within filming, directing, editing, and acting as well as creating soundscapes and sound design for innovative film and moving image worlds. Thinking the new and surrounding myself with inspiring individuals whilst working in diverse projects, from poetic filmmaking to fiction and documentaries. Standing for social equality, and integrity, I managed to establish what my art and storytelling mean to a creative authentic expression of self. I am an artist approaching life with full consciousness, vitality and intensity heading towards generating ambitious audio-visual flow who goes beyond limitations, always aspiring for poetic connection where feeling is heightened, and the spectator is made more active. The role of sound design is crucial in my practice and is represented by the interplay against the image that adds value to the screen. This imitates the natural function of the expressed world presented in cinema. Using collaborative techniques with Glasgow based musicians, I direct, sample, and manipulate the soundscapes created.

My cinema thought revolves around an audio-visual flow that processes a self, created in the film through symbolic representations that rest upon the phenomenology of vision. It is a poetic cinema of self-expression that seeks allegorical status in its attempt to articulate the past while using montage and sound as a sense of tropology. My films are an experience as well as a system of communication which utilises multiple perspectives to situate the viewer in a familiar position of relating to the world. The image is neither objective nor subjective but a process of transformation creating cinematic meaning while the sound is empathetic driving the story forward.

Art will exist in the audience’s imagination and interpretation so that one will recover the external phenomena, providing gatherings of cognition over time building composite understandings. Through the experience of uncertainty, the subject will relate to the reality of its perception, memories thoughts, and desires. The main motive that shall be recognized in my filmmaking is the reclamation of a re-enchanted relationship with nature as a source of orientation whilst opening new possibilities of thought through art.