Alex Manea 

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     My video practice explores time, perception, and the ways narrative, image, and gesture can be reinterpreted. I am drawn to repetition, recontextualization, and the subtle shifts that occur when experience is mediated through frame, sequence, or text.

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     Live compiles over 300 scenes of artists at work from more than 700 films, arranged chronologically to create a nearly nine-hour montage. The work functions as both an archive and a meditation on artistic labor, showing how creation has been imagined across cinema history.

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     In 48 Disney Movies, forty-eight Disney animation films play simultaneously, transforming familiar imagery into a dense field of sound, color, and narrative, exploring influence and appropriation as a creative act.

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     The Matrix: Script presents the entire screenplay of The Matrix as a continuous credit roll, accompanied by the looped sound from the film's final credits. By removing the visuals of the original spectacle, the work focuses attention on narrative, rhythm, and imagination.

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     Arta Video turns a televised interview about Live into a new work, reflecting on the boundary between video art and cinema, and on authorship in media.

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     The Pill documents a neighbor's thirty-year nightly walk as an alternative to medication, exploring ritual, routine, and care.

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     Andy Warhol's Blow Job (JAV Version) reframes Warhol's footage through selective blurring, highlighting reactions and interrogating eroticism and mediation.

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     Colors of Balchik pairs black-and-white photographs with a friend's poem, coloring a single element in each photo to correspond with the text, creating a dialogue between image, language, and memory.

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     Across all works, I investigate the overlooked, amplify the ordinary, and reflect on how we see, remember and imagine.