Granada
Centre for Visual Anthropology
University
of Manchester
Arthur
Lewis Building
Manchester
M13 9PL UK
alysrgrossman@gmail.com
Lumina
amintirii explores evocations of memory in
post-socialist Bucharest, twenty years after the fall of Romanian communism.
The film is shot in Cismigiu Gardens, one
of the oldest public parks in Bucharest. This park is a central space
attracting people from all walks of life, a place for social interaction and
solitary reflection.
Interweaving voices that recollect the
past with glimpses of present-day scenes from the park, the film constructs a
montage of stillness and motion, images and voices, landscapes and people.
Alyssa Grossman
is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in Heritage Studies at the
University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has a PhD in Social Anthropology with
Visual Media from the University of Manchester. Her film Lumina amintirii (2010) was part of her doctoral thesis on everyday
sites and practices of remembrance work in post-socialist Bucharest, Romania.
She also has an MA in Visual Anthropology from the Granada Centre for Visual
Anthropology (2005). Her previous film, Into
the Field (2005), received awards at the Astra International Film Festival
(2006), the Gรถttingen International Film Festival (2006), and the Society for
Visual Anthropology Film and Video Festival (2006).