Contact : liancu@vt.edu
Laura Iancu
LAURA IANCU Abridged CV
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Formal Education
2016 M.F.A in Film and Video Production – University of Iowa, IA, US
2013 M.F.A in Photography – University of Iowa, IA, US
2008 B.F.A in Fine Arts, Pedagogy – Ovidius University, Romania, EU
2004 Diploma in Visual Arts, Painting – Queen Maria Art Highschool, Romania, EU
Academic and professional positions held
Academic Positions
2021– Assistant Professor, School of Performing Arts, Cinema Program, Virginia Tech, VA
2017–20 Instructor, School of Performing Arts, Cinema Program, Virginia Tech, VA
2016–17 Visiting Professor, Syracuse University, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Department of Transmedia, Syracuse
2013–16 Instructor, University of Iowa, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Cinematic Arts, Iowa City, IA
2012–14 Instructor, University of Iowa, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, School of Art and Art History, Iowa City, IA
Related professional positions
2016 Creative Coordinator, Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2014–16 Photography Technician - University of Iowa, Photography Department, Iowa City, IA
2013–15 Videographer for the International Writers Program Residency (IWP), International Writing Program, UIowa
2007–08 Art Director for the National Theatre, Constanta & Commission Video work for Odeon Theatre, Bucharest, Romania
CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
Film Festivals
2022
Festival NodoCCS, Caracas, Venezuela, // Current State=true;
24'th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Madurai, India, Sweet Press
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, // Current State=true;
Experimental Film Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico ,Feeder
Sight and Sound Festival, Oxnard, CA, US, Sweet Press
Ultra Cinema Xl, Chicho, Mexico, Sinking About You
UVezuvius International Film Festival, Campania, Italy, Feeder
Postales a Lumière - Itinerant Exhibition of Contemporary Cinema, Feeder
Nanhui Ollin Film Festival, Durago, Mexico, Feeder
10'th International Video Poetry Film Festival, Athens, Grece, Sinking About You
2021
Xprmntl Film Festival, London, UK,Transmissions & Blues for Martin Sostre
San Diego Underground Film festival, San Diego, Ca, // Current State=true;
Fotogenia, Film Poetry & Divergent Narratives Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, Transmissions
Octopus Marquee Independent Film Festival, Self(i.e;)
Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, //Current State. = true;
ICAT Creativity+Innovation Day, The Observatory
Altered Aesthetics Film Festival, London, UK, Feeder
Feel the Reel Film Festival , London, UK, // Current State=true;
Crescent City Film Festival, New Orleans, Transmissions
Festival Ecra, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, – World Premiere –The Observatory
Citric Signals Video Network, Feeder
Detroit Shetown Women’s Film Festival, Detroit, Michigan, Feeder
Screener Short Films, London, UK, Feeder
Buzz Vicious Underground Film Festival, Amazonas, Brazil, // Current State=true;
Hallucinea Film Festival, Paris, France, Feeder
Vinilonga Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feeder
Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival, Port of Spain, // Current State=true;
Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, US, Level IV
Midwest Video Poetry Fest, Madison, WI, I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always
Darkroom Film Festival, London, UK, I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always
2020
London Experimental Film Festival, London, UK, Transmissions
Strangelove Time-Based Media Festival, -online- Transmissions
Underneath the Floorboards Visual Arts Festival, London, UK, -online- Feeder
Coop Microcinema, Nashville, TN, -online- Feeder
2019
ULTRAcinema, Guelatao, Oaxaca, Mexico, Clear
Green Screen Environmental Film Festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago,Transmissions
Festival Cinemistica, Granada, Spain, Transmissions
CODEC International Experimental Film and Video Festival, San Rafael, Mexico, Transmissions
Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria, BC, Canada, Transmissions
The traveling tent of The Itinerant Cinema of La Bête Rousse. The tent is pitched within various music festivals in France, Fasterrr
The London Experimental Film Festival, The Islington Metal Works, London, Fasterrr
Medusa Underground Film Festival, Las Vegas, Nevada, Fasterrrr
Colorado International Cannabis & Hemp Film Festival, The Bug Theater, Denver, Clear
Experimental Superstars, Novi Sad, Serbia, Clear
Druid Underground Film Festival, Clear
South Carolina Underground Film Festival, North Charleston, SC, Clear
San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA, Transmissions
Indie Grits Film Festival, Nickelodeon Theatre, Colombia, SC, Clear
Fayetteville Film Fest , Downtown Fayetteville, AR, Clear
Femmes Underground International Film Festival , Los Angeles, CA, Clear
Mirror Mountain Film Festival, Arts Court Theatre, Ottawa, CA, Transmissions
Bare Bones International Film & Music Festival, Transmissions
2018 London Experimental Film Festival, London, UK, Fasterrrr
Medusa Underground Film Festival, Las Vegas, NV, Self(i.e;), Fasterrrr
Antimatter, Victoria, BC, Canada, Minerals and Buttercups
Altered Aesthetics Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN, Fasterrr
Women/ NB Digital Art at the Moss Arts Center, Blacksburg, VA, Self(i.e;), Rattle
Alchemy Film and Movie Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland, Minerals and Buttercups
Vertical Cinema screening series, Iowa City, IA Self(i.e;), Level I
Indie Grits Festival, Columbia, SC, Fasterrr
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, MN, Minerals and Buttercups
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Invitational solo screenings and exhibitions
2022 - Jan 18 – Feb 11 Current State, multiple recent videos ( oh Girl it's You, Feeder, Fasterrrr, Current State = True; and Sinking About You ) played at Terminal Gallery, at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN. Curated by McLean Fahnestock
2021 - Presented SHO , an online live event sponsored by The Rose Library at the invitation of Emory University. The screening was made in collaboration with poet and performer Douglas Kearney and consisted of a 45 minute Youtube live event of screenings and poetry followed by a moderated zoom QnA.
- Leave It Open Solo presentation of multiple short films at the invitation of the Center of European Union, Transatlantic, and Trans- European Space Studies at Virginia Tech (CEUTTSS), Online Premiere followed moderated QnA.
2019 Special Filmmaker Spotlight Screening and QnA, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Iowa City, IA
2014 Cinematic Arts Seminar, University of Iowa, IA, Level II
2012 Porch Gallery, video installation, Iowa City, IA, Afterthoughts
Public Space One, Iowa City, IA, Birthtree
Invitational group screenings & panels
2021 New Media Panel - A discussion with creatives selected for trinidad+tobago film festival 2021, Moderator Melanie. Archer
COOP Gallery Microcinema Film Festival, Nashville, TN
2019 Lightning talk at the IEI ( Expression, and Immersion Symposium) - "A two-day symposium hosted by Virginia Tech’s Creativity+Innovation (C+I) Immersive Audio Group aimed at discussing creative research, overall challenges, and requirements for presenting auditory information within immersive environments to facilitate the artistic expression of naturalistic listening experience for high-fidelity immersion.
2019 From Future's End, ACinema Woodland Pattern Book Center, program curated by Janelle VanderKelen and Takahiro Suzuki
Spring Creative Technologies in Music DISIS Faculty and Guest Artists Event, the Cube, Moss Art Center, Blacksburg, VA
2018 Yerba Buena center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, program curated by Kara Herold
Women/ NB Digital Art at the Moss Arts Center, Blacksburg, VA
2017 An Evening of Poetry Film, Marfa Poetry Festival, curated by Nick Twemlow.
Group gallery exhibitions
2022 Gathering - Faculty Triennial, Moss Art Center, Blacksburg, VA, How to Make a Video Game
2018 Front International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, OH
2013 Electronics Alive, Hartley Gallery, Tampa, FL
2012 Command Z, Drewlowe Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2011 We never fall apart; we never fall together, Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City, IA
Gnu/New Work, Hillel Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2010 Lo Spazio Di Dobrogia Nell’Ambito Della Modernita, Venice, Italy
CREATIVE WORKS/ FILMOGRAPHY
Single-channel videos, including animation
Where We Live
The Good Neighbors
// Current state = state;
Sweet Press
Oh Girl, It’s You
Sinking About You
Level V
Feeder
Leave it Open
Transmissions
Level IV
Fasterrrr
Minerals and Buttercups
Self(I.E;),
Perfumes and Caresses,
Rattle
Murmur
Level III,
Manila Folder
Level II
Blackbox
Level I
Fever
Birthtree
In This House
Orange/Milk
Music Videos
Blues for Martin Sostre (for Bushmeat Sound Systems)
27 (for Silent Strike)
a song i wrote for you (for Hior Chronik)
Clear (for Silk Duck)
Multi-screen
Afterthoughts, looping 5 screen gallery installation
360/VR videos
Exploded View, 4.5 minutes
Nesting, 5 minutes
Video Games
The Observatory
Horsemint Island
Collaborations
2021 SHO, 45 Minutes, visual artist, live poetry reading by Douglas Kearney, sponsored by the Rose Library at Emory University,
2017 Caihong City (dir Florina Titz) Art Director, SciFi Narrative, Feature
2016. World of Facts (dir. Mike Gibisser) ,Camera Operator, Fiction Narrative, Feature
2012 Faster (dir Nick Twemlow) Cinematographer, Drama, Short
2011 The Trapper (dir Jared Seltzer) Production Designer, Additional Photography, drama, short
2011 The Agony and Sweat of the Human Spirit ( dir Jesse D Damazo and Joe Bookman), AD, DP, fiction narrative, short
2009 Daidaiiro (dir Florina Titz), Art Director, Visual Effects, web series, short
2009 Such Hope (dir Radu Afrim), Producer, Video projections for theatre play, Odeon Theatre, Romania
