35 A triptych of stills.

Blurry video still of a crowd at an event in honor of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu.

I slow down the Radu Jude’s video and freeze the frame before it develops itself.

Blurry video still of a crowd at an event in honor of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu.

Blurry video still of a crowd at an event in honor of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu.

“I wanted to put together this dialectical montage, so that this secret history—small, personal, and hidden—clashed with the official, visual history of Romania, which was being televised at exactly the same time as these [case files] appeared,” Radu Jude said in an interview.

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