ligia.smarandache@ubbcluj.ro
Associate professor, PhD, Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University
Teaching disciplines: Editing, Motion graphics, Set design, Experimental techniques in short-films, Practice as research.
She graduates the University of Art and Design, in Cluj-Napoca, completing her Ph.D. thesis in 2012 with the title The role of Video Essay in the Postmodern Visual Communication.
Worked in the field of graphic-design, broadcast motion-graphics and set design for television. As independent artist, she begins as a fine art printmaker, later exploring the field of video-art, experimental and documentary films from editing to directing.
Films as author:
2023 Passage …to nowhere -a short docu-fiction which reveals art’s therapeutically, cognitive and often spiritual role by interviewing a group of Romanian and German artists from the twin cities Cluj-Napoca and Köln.
2016 Video-installation Meditation was shown in group exhibitions in Cluj-Napoca such as: 2016 Dialogue in Agora- Contemporary Archeology / 2019 The night of the galleries / 2021 Antisistem integrat.
2012 short experimental animation-essay named “Confessions” which participates at 2012 Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival / 2013 Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival, Ireland.
In the field of documentary film, 2006 she was selected to the International workshop Aristoteles Workshop, working at editing and sound. Directed by Adina Pintilie, in 2007 the film “…Don’t get me wrong…” won the Golden Dove prize at DOK Leipzig, Germany and it was selected to numerously international film festivals in Europe.
As printmaker she participates to international and national art exhibitions as member of the Romanian Artist Union or independent: Finland, New York, Japan, Timișoara, Bucharest, Malaesia.
In 1994 Arts Link residency grant for artists and art managers from Eastern Europe- at Lower East Side PrintShop, New York, USA. Her prints were selected to be published in the “New Art” edited by Roxana Marcoci, Diana Murphy, Eve Sinaiko, Harry N Abrams, Inc., New-York, 1997, a book featuring work by over one hundred contemporary artists around the world.