During the lockdown introduced across Europe over the
COVID-19 pandemic, the Austrian Cultural Forum in Bucharest invited 60 artists
from Austria and Romania to reflect on their future in arts and on how their art
and communities may see themselves transformed during and after the health
crisis.
The videos they submitted were posted by the Austrian Cultural
Forum Bucharest on social networks. The success of the initiative prompted the
ACF Bucharest team to entrust the distinguished theatre and film director Carmen
Lidia Vidu with the production of a documentary using the video materials of
the participating artists. We talked to Andrei Popov, deputy director of the Austrian
Cultural Forum Bucharest and delegate producer of the documentary #newTogether,
about the birth of this project that he initiated jointly with the ACF
Bucharest director Thomas Kloiber:
Andrei Popov: The project took shape the moment the pandemic was
sweeping the world. It was then that myself and