A time capsule of New York City between August 13-15, 1965, framed by the Beatles’ arrival in the city and their first concert at Shea Stadium, all narrated from two teenagers’ points of view.
Andrei Ujică is a writer, film director and professor. He studied literature in Timișoara and Bucharest, and later in Heidelberg. He wrote his first essays in 1968 and collaborated with Șerban Foarță during the 1970s to compose the lyrics for the Romanian band Phoenix. An avowed dissident, Andrei Ujică emigrated to West Germany in 1981, where he entered academia, teaching literary theory, film and media studies at the University of Mannheim. Between 2001 and 2017, he held a film professorship at the Karlsruhe State University of Art and Design, and between 2002 and 2017, he was director for the Film Institute of the ZKM in Karlsruhe. Since 1990 he has dedicated himself to filmmaking, having directed: Videograms from a Revolution (1992, co-directed with Harun Farocki), Out of the Present (1995) and The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu (2010).
