PAULA ONET

Resident June 2023

Paula has established herself through film projects that are both linear (documentaries and hybrid films) and non-linear, trans-disciplinary (video and multi-media installations), exhibited, presented and acclaimed at numerous international festivals and art galleries. The short film DUPA FEL SI CHIP (As you like it), which premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, was followed by a trajectory of more than 40 festivals around the world (Dok Leipzig, Tif, Zagreb Dox etc), winning awards for best picture, best film, best short film and the audience prize.Multimedia projects include the interactive installation 4GEN-WOMEN exhibited at the famous NationalArt Gallery in Prague and in art galleries in Turkey, Romania and Spain. Paula took part in the 2014 Venice Biennale exhibition, representing Romania with the SITE UNDERCONSTRUCTION project team and exhibiting an 11-screen multimedia installation in the Romanian pavilion.

During her stay at Domus Residency with Camilla Cason they will work on the project:

Drop a line to the wind - Documentary Film

Authors: Camilla Cason and Paula Onet / Director: Paula Onet / Choreographer: Camilla Cason

"Drop a line to the wind" is an anthropological and mystical journey into the origins of tarantella, a dance reputed to cure the bite of the tarantula, the mythical spider of the Salento region (Puglia, Italy). The film is based on and interwoven with Camilla Cason's performance "Partir d'une tarentule", which, through the tarantella, questions our relationship with living things and the current need to rethink these links and create new rituals. Performance becomes the leitmotif of the film, which seeks to link the origins of a ritual practice with its resonance in the present and its possible future.

(with the support of Onda - Office national de diffusion artistique as part of the Écran vivant programme and Passages Transfestival)