The Powers of the False in Romanian Cinema. The case of Police, Adjective and Aurora
The Powers of the False in Romanian Cinema. The case of Police, Adjective and Aurora

Summary/Abstract: The issue of real time in recent Romanian Cinema has been attributed to a belief in a type of realism of cinematic representation inspired by the film ontology of André Bazin. This study examines the use of continuous space-time in the surveillance sequences of Police, Adjective (2009) and throughout the film Aurora. Surveillance is analysed through a foucauldian lens, as it is analysed as part of panoptic model of surveillance characteristic of disciplinary power. Abandoning the bazinian argument, the “powers of the false” is the defined as the major characteristic of the narration of the two films, which are seen as following a tendency of modern cinema – the emancipation of time from the logic of dramatic action.

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