A film by Rumena Trendafilova. Teaser featuring parts of chapter 1- Beats/ Buzludzha music: Stefan Weingärtner voice: Sara Biazar camera: Jesse de Pagter, Rumena Trendafilova text: Rumena Trendafilova text edit: Pouya Sepehr, Jesse de Pagter, Sara Biazar Academy of fine arts, Vienna IKA 2018 Diploma submission under the supervision of: Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Ing. Angelika Schnell Mag. Lisa Schmidt-Colinet Mag. Ludwig Löckinger Post-historical dreaming is a film which uses fiction as a mode of criticism and reconsideration of pressing societal memories. Bulgaria has moved on from the communist regime, but has yet to recover. While the crave for a future and abandonment of the past is stronger than the feeling of nostalgia, the Gods of this future require a sacrifice of the old icons. The icons of the past are replications of a former utopia: The movie is telling the socialist monuments' hidden stories. From the perspective of a dreamlike state, it is looking for the life and death, ambition and lost cause, belief and rejection, all hidden behind a concrete facade. An ambivalent quest for rebellion and peace between a society in transition and utopias of the past… In a desperate search for balance...

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