Alexandru Dabija

As sharp as a knife’s blade, Radu Jude’s short visually quotes Sergei Eisenstein’s Soviet classic Battleship Potemkin to dissect the paradoxes of the present. Holding no punches, darkly comic musings on cinema and memory expose the sheer absurdity of artmaking under bureaucratic authorities.

Aiming his satirical arrow at the contradictions of religion, Radu Jude brings thorny questions of faith down to earth in this darkly ironic short. From tax forms and rush-hour traffic to customer’s woes, the daily travails of an ordinary priest are rendered amusingly, farcically transactional.