Bio : Born 1969 in Dobrich, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Description : This video is part of a series of four artworks, based on a collection of excerpts from five feature films, where there are references to Bulgaria, Bulgarian character, culture, etc. The work is a study on how moving image industry as mass media deals with the image of “the other”, “the unknown”, “the exotic” cultures. It is surprising to see a certain strong connection in the references in the films, they all have nothing to do with reality, or interpret it in a weird way. In these films one can see either distribution of the popular clich?s, or fictions created from the Bulgarian identity a monstrous, grotesque persona.