Cătălin Bocîrnea

Alai

2026

Screen Work

Creative & Art Director

"Alai" is a musical project shaped as a vibrant, effervescent, living ritual. It draws from Romanian roots, unfolding them within a contemporary form through voice, texture, raw stage energy, and a contagious presence.

„Alai" este un proiect muzical conturat ca un ritual viu, vibrant și efervescent. Se hrănește din rădăcini românești, desfășurându-le într-o formă contemporană prin voce, textură, energie scenică brută și o prezență molipsitoare.

- Executive Producer: Calina Maria
- Co-producer: DWMT Sessions
- Creative & Art Director: Cătălin Bocîrnea
- Musical Director: Alex Misu
- DoP: Bragovski
- Styling: Sura Susara
- Photos: Stefan Marinescu
- Headphones: Bandbook.ro
- Sound Engineer: Enegelu Sergiu
- Special Thanks: Andreea Stefania V., Casiopeea VV

Maria Tănase - The Boundless Voice

2025

Stage Work

Director & Set Design

National Theater 'Aureliu Manea' Turda

The inner depths of a woman loved beyond herself. Embraced by those unable to contain her. Confined within the invisible boundaries of imposed silence.

Adâncurile lăuntrice ale unei femei iubite dincolo de ea însăși. Îmbrățișată de cei incapabili să o cuprindă. Închisă între granițele invizibile ale unei tăceri impuse.

- Director & Set Design: Cătălin Bocîrnea
- Cast: Raluca Marina Gheorghiu, Valentin Oncu, Alexandru Condurat
- Voice: Cătălin Florea
- Sound Design: Alexandru Condurat & Andrei Gheorghiu
- Video Art: Marius Palermo & Cătălin Bocîrnea
- Lighting Design: Albert Levente
- Photography: Marius Romila

Vecina

2025

Screen Work

Art Director

For Vecina, I worked as Art Director, building the spaces in which the comedy could unfold. The film met its audience and became a commercial success in Romania. Sometimes success means that the spaces you build are entered by thousands of people you will never meet, yet who will live, for a moment, inside a world you helped construct.

TBD

- Art Director: Bogdan Bocîrnea

Letter to my Father

2024

Stage Work

Director

UNITER / German Cultural Centre Iași / Jewish State Theatre

A son writes to a father who will never read him. The space unfolds as his mind. The audience is placed inside it. > "My life has been shaped by what I could never say to you."

Un fiu îi scrie unui tată care nu-l va citi niciodată. Spațiul se desfășoară ca mintea lui. Publicul este așezat înăuntru. > „Viața mea a fost modelată de ceea ce nu ți-am putut spune niciodată."

- Adaptation: Edith Negulici, based on the novel by Franz Kafka
- Translation: Mircea Ivănescu
- With: Mircea Dragoman
- Directed by: Cătălin Bocîrnea
- Set Design: Raul Cioabă
- Sound Design: Cosmo Stanciu
- Assistant Director: Rebecca Rauh
- Stage Engineering: Paul Stroia
- Photography: Vlad Botan

The Judgement

2024

Stage Work

Director

A ritual of confrontation unfolds. Guilt, identity, and memory are exposed under an invisible tribunal, transforming judgment into a deeply personal and collective reckoning. Is He guilty? White and black appear in the hands of the audience. They must decide.

Un ritual al confruntării se desfășoară. Vinovăția, identitatea și memoria sunt expuse sub un tribunal invizibil, transformând judecata într-o socoteală profund personală și colectivă. Este El vinovat? Albul și negrul apar în mâinile publicului. Ei trebuie să decidă.

- Set Design: Raul Cioabă
- Soundtrack: IXV
- Prosthetics and Makeup: Dana Bordea
- Video-making: Andreea Ștefănescu
- Cast: Marius Călugărița, Nicolae Botezatu, Mihai Prejban, Veaceslav Grosu, Mircea Drîmbăreanu, Ciprian Nicula, Mircea Dragoman, Răzvan Bratu, Ioachim Ciobanu
- Voice: Maia Morgenstern
- Photography: Nadina Stoica

Cosmic House Gallery — 3rd Anniversary

2024

Spatial & Installation

Creative Director

The Cosmic House Foundation

A sequence of interdisciplinary encounters where dance, music, theatre, and mixology enter into a precise yet fluid dialogue with selected works from the gallery exhibition. Emerging from intimate exchanges between artist and performer, each moment unfolds as a shared field — an ephemeral construction, a spark of co-authorship, a form shaped in real time and existing only in its encounter.

O succesiune de întâlniri interdisciplinare în care dansul, muzica, teatrul și mixologia intră într-un dialog precis și totodată fluid cu lucrări selectate din expoziția galeriei. Născut din schimburi intime între artist și performer, fiecare moment se desfășoară ca un câmp comun — o construcție efemeră, o scânteie de co-autorat, o formă modelată în timp real și existentă doar în întâlnirea ei.

Valley of the Blinds

2024

Screen Work

Scenographer, Set Designer, Actor (Soldier Hunor), Stunt Double

Within the project, Bocîrnea serves as scenographer and set designer, leading the scenography department, while also portraying Soldier Hunor and working as a stunt double for Mr. Stan and other roles.

În cadrul proiectului, Bocîrnea este scenograf și designer de decor, coordonând departamentul de scenografie, interpretând totodată rolul Soldatului Hunor și lucrând ca dublură de cascadorie pentru Dl. Stan și alte roluri.

- Director: Ion Ionescu
- Scenography & Set Design: Cătălin Bocîrnea
- Acting: Soldier Hunor (+ stunt double)

Vatra Verde — London Design Biennale

2023

Spatial & Installation

Creative Director

Romanian Pavilion — London Design Biennale

"Vatra Verde" is an installation in the form of a living system. A regenerative act that draws from ancient knowledge to disrupt the present and rehearse a sustainable future.

„Vatra Verde" este o instalație sub forma unui sistem viu. Un act regenerativ care se hrănește din cunoașterea străveche pentru a perturba prezentul și a repeta un viitor sustenabil.

- Designers: Cristina Cantemir, Cristina Maria Pop, Loana Vultur
- Creative Director: Cătălin Bocîrnea
- Curator: George Ciprian Mihnea
- Kinetic Interaction: Radu Nicu
- Innovative Materials: Gabriel Barta
- Accessibility for Visual Disabled: Andrei Nicu
- Sound Technician & Designer: Eddy Horvath
- Poems: Maram Hmaidan

Enescu — Skinned Alive

2023

Screen Work

Production Designer

For the film dedicated to George Enescu, I imagined and built the spaces in which memory could live again. Rooms, textures, distances, light, all became part of a world trying to hold the presence of a composer who no longer exists, but whose music still shapes space. The scenography for the film was awarded five prizes for Production Design. In the same film, I appear as Edmond Fleg, the librettist of Oedipe.

TBD

- Director: Toma Enache
- Production Designer: Bogdan Bocîrnea
- Also appearing as: Edmond Fleg

Open Window

2022

Stage Work

Creator

Theater im Depot Dortmund

The project unfolds in a field of tension between digital and real space, between physical dance movement and its transfer into a virtual space.

Proiectul se desfășoară într-un câmp de tensiune între spațiul digital și cel real, între mișcarea fizică de dans și transferul ei într-un spațiu virtual.

Liability

2022

Screen Work

Director & Editor

Directed, shot and edited by me, this film was born from a very personal situation. A close friend was going through her first heartbreak, and we used singing and filming as a way to stay with the emotion and give it a form. Sometimes the camera is not there to produce images, but to help someone pass through a moment that would otherwise be too heavy to carry alone. Anna Oancea - Liability Lorde Cover.

TBD

- Director & Editor: Bogdan Bocîrnea
- Performer: Anna Oancea

Nuntă pe Bani

2022

Screen Work

Art Director

As Art Director, I coordinated the set design team and oversaw the construction of the film's visual environments, working on the spatial language of a contemporary Romanian comedy where rhythm, movement and space had to function together.

TBD

- Art Director: Bogdan Bocîrnea

Escapist.FBX

2021

Stage Work

Creator

From observer to adviser, from our reality to virtual reality, from real persons to 3D animated avatars and from a simple witness to a co-creator, a performance unfolding as a roller-coaster of feelings and thoughts. Escapist offers its audience the possibility to witness and explore a new multiverse in today's Age of Participation. > Mother: Since the George Floyd video, I haven't found a way to explain to my child what is happening. > … > I went through his Facebook Messenger. I had to. > Did she tell you what they're planning for tomorrow?

De la observator la consilier, de la realitatea noastră la realitatea virtuală, de la persoane reale la avataruri animate 3D și de la simplu martor la co-creator, un spectacol care se desfășoară ca un roller-coaster de sentimente și gânduri. Escapist oferă publicului posibilitatea de a fi martor și de a explora un nou multivers în actuala Eră a Participării. > Mama: De la videoul cu George Floyd, nu am găsit o modalitate să-i explic copilului meu ce se întâmplă. > … > I-am verificat Facebook Messenger-ul. A trebuit. > Ți-a spus ce plănuiesc pentru mâine? ## Original Cast - **With:** Rinaldy Kanguvu, Axelle Verkempinck, Marie De Buck, Alice De Waele - **Voice:** Lorena Copil - **Technical Supervision and Production:** Anthony Leliaert - **Production:** Tim Vermorgen - **Created by:** Cătălin Bocîrnea - **Special Thanks:** Eric Engels, Bart Capelle, Ruud Gielens, Hendrik De Smedt, Stefan Gota ## Reimagined Interferences Version - **With:** Crina Andriuca, Catalina Nichitin, Lorena Copil, Raluca Marina Gheorghiu, Júlia Laczó, Eszter Román - **Poem Translation and Voiceover in Hungarian:** Eszter Tompa - **Voiceover in Romanian and English:** Lorena Copil - **Created by:** Cătălin Bocîrnea - **Set Design:** Florin Terec - **Sound Design:** Men-D - **Video Design:** Puiac Virgil - **Producer:** Thomas Mendel - **With the Support of:** Madd Electronics, 4DPixel, Insomnia Cafe, Hungarian Theatre of Cluj

Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

2021

Spatial & Installation

Director

The audience is invited to dine inside a cinematic sequence of living images, where intimacy, power and seduction unfolded as a shared social ritual. What emerged was not a staged story, but a shared intimate situation, cruelty and seduction appeared at arm's length, way to close for comfort.

TBD

- Director: Bogdan Bocîrnea
- Photography: Crina Prida
- With: Elena Ivanca, Cristian Grosu, Mara Micle, Maria Mateas, Maria Pandrea

Cosmic House — 33 Performances

2021

Spatial & Installation

Creator

Cosmic House Foundation

In the summer of 2021, I brought together 33 performative interventions at Cosmic House Foundation, each one created through the encounter of artists from different disciplines. Spread across one month, the project became the largest performative intervention in Cluj Napoca and was conceived as a gesture of gratitude toward the community that shaped me.

TBD

- Creator: Bogdan Bocîrnea

Living Albon

2021

Spatial & Installation

Creator

Mendel Collective

Performance in memory of Bogdan Albon. At the beginning of January 2021 our dear friend and colleague did not return from what was supposed to be a short trip in Great Britain. Mendel Collective commemorated the loss of a friend through an immersive performance. By entering an intimate space, the performance invites the audience to encounter a familiar presence and its inner world. It unfolds as a paradox (both holding and releasing a soul) leaving a subtle, lasting imprint. Framed as a ritual, it becomes a tribute to life revealed through loss.

Performance în memoria lui Bogdan Albon. La începutul lunii ianuarie 2021, dragul nostru prieten și coleg nu s-a mai întors din ceea ce trebuia să fie o scurtă călătorie în Marea Britanie. Mendel Collective a comemorat pierderea unui prieten printr-un performance imersiv. Pătrunzând într-un spațiu intim, performance-ul invită publicul să întâlnească o prezență familiară și lumea ei interioară. Se desfășoară ca un paradox (deopotrivă ținând și eliberând un suflet), lăsând o amprentă subtilă și durabilă. Conceput ca un ritual, devine un omagiu adus vieții, revelate prin pierdere.

Re-Birth

2021

Spatial & Installation

Creator

The Cosmic House Foundation

**It's about awakening your inner energies through a disarming, almost confrontational ritual.** **An anti-relaxation massage that unfolds as a descent into the unknown territories of a new self.** **A space where you leave your clothes — and your certainties — at the door. In the hands of a professional massage therapist, once a male stripper. Guided by once an actress/performer, now a full-time poet.**

**E despre trezirea energiilor interioare printr-un ritual dezarmant, aproape confrontațional.** **Un masaj anti-relaxare care se desfășoară ca o coborâre în teritoriile necunoscute ale unui sine nou.** **Un spațiu în care îți lași hainele — și certitudinile — la ușă. Pe mâinile unui maseur profesionist, cândva stripper. Ghidat de o fostă actriță/performeră, acum poetă cu normă întreagă.**

- With: Alexandra Cheroiu, Bogdan Milaș

Trans-It FBX

2021

Spatial & Installation

Director

Funnel Contemporary Belgrade

Immersive performative installation that engages the audience in a peculiar journey that destroys the bridge between reality and fiction using personal memories as the only available tool to create a safety net.

TBD

- Director: Bogdan Bocîrnea
- With: Catalina Nichitin, Florina Florian-Filip, Maram Hmaidan
- Music: MEN-D
- Executive Producer: Thomas Mendel

Age of Aquarius

2021

Screen Work

Director & Choreographer

Somehow me and my team ended up in a peculiar abandoned house, one day before the vanishing of her walls, history and shadows. As the place embraced us we devoted ourselves to it and for few hours we filmed. Inspired by the work of Forough Farrokhzad we came up with the Age of Aquarium. Shot entirely on iPhone 11.

TBD

- Director & Choreographer: Bogdan Bocîrnea
- With: Ileana Ursu, Luana Seu, Diana C. Rus
- Music: Micha Mendel / Men-D
- Executive Producer: Radu Nichie

Cuttputlli

2021

Screen Work

Lighting Department

Pooja Entertainment

Worked as part of the lighting department on a large-scale Bollywood feature film production, gaining experience within the industrial film production system and large crew structures soon after the COVID period.

TBD

- Director: Ranjit Tewari
- Cinematographer: Rajeev Ravi
- Lighting Department: Bogdan Bocîrnea

Ganapath

2021

Screen Work

Light Technician

Pooja Entertainment

Joined the feature film Ganapath as part of a large scale production built around futuristic environments and dystopian visual design. Working within this industrial scale set offered direct experience with complex lighting systems used to construct atmosphere, architecture and speculative worlds.

TBD

- Director: Vikas Bahl
- Light Technician: Bogdan Bocîrnea

Longing / Dor

2021

Screen Work

Producer

Following a Romanian shepherd navigating questions of belonging and direction in life, the film unfolds as a poetic documentary balancing landscape, solitude and existential reflection. World Premiere: Visions du Réel. Ann Arbor Film Festival. Brussels Independent Film Festival — Best Belgian Film.

TBD

- Director: Jannes Callens
- Producer: Bogdan Bocîrnea

Romanian Trance Family

2021

Screen Work

Director

Romanian Trance Family 3rd year anniversary. MEN-D progressive set.

TBD

- Director: Bogdan Bocîrnea
- Music: MEN-D

Wellness Center for Self Destruction

2020

Stage Work

Director

K.A.K - Sessies #6

> "The self-help industry is one of the biggest industries in the world, but there is nothing wrong with you! Oh by the way. The most frequently uttered last word by people about to die a violent death is 'fuck'. 8% of those about to die say 'what the fuck', 6% say only 'fuck', and there is another 2.8% that uses 'fuck you'. Although in the latter case the last word is 'you', however it's clearly overshadowed by 'fuck'."

> „Industria dezvoltării personale este una dintre cele mai mari industrii din lume, dar cu tine nu e nimic în neregulă! A, apropo. Cel mai frecvent ultim cuvânt rostit de oamenii care sunt pe punctul de a muri o moarte violentă este «fuck». 8% dintre cei pe moarte spun «what the fuck», 6% spun doar «fuck», iar mai există un 2,8% care folosește «fuck you». Deși în ultimul caz, ultimul cuvânt este «you», totuși e clar umbrit de «fuck»."

- Cast: Ana-Maria Pop, Liviu Bora, Axelle Verkempinck
- Director: Cătălin Bocîrnea
- Commissioned by: K.A.K - Sessies #6

Collection of Instigated Movements

2020

Spatial & Installation

Creator

An ongoing research project aiming to gather a choreographic archive of movements. Initially developed during the "Movement Traces" project at Les Halles de Schaerbeek in Brussels, this research explores how movement can be documented. In its first phase, each participant was asked to provide two drops of sweat within a strictly limited five-minute interval, confined to a constrained space. Their choices have been archived.

Un proiect de cercetare în desfășurare care își propune să adune o arhivă coregrafică de mișcări. Dezvoltat inițial în cadrul proiectului „Movement Traces" la Les Halles de Schaerbeek din Bruxelles, această cercetare explorează modul în care mișcarea poate fi documentată. În prima sa fază, fiecărui participant i s-a cerut să ofere două picături de transpirație într-un interval strict limitat de cinci minute, confinat într-un spațiu restrâns. Alegerile lor au fost arhivate.

Tuberculosis

2020

Screen Work

Writer & Director

A forgotten body is soaking someone's dead bed. Mind mapping video poem.

Un trup uitat înmoaie patul de moarte al cuiva. Video poem de tip mind mapping.

- Written and Directed by: Cătălin Bocîrnea

S'AINT

2019

Stage Work

Director

RITCS Brussels — Solo Sessions

**S'Aint** is a participatory one-man show that engages the audience in a journey toward spiritual belonging. Through the lens of an immigrant actor struggling to connect with his new environment, the performance unfolds a series of questions about our roles as guests and hosts.

**S'Aint** este un one-man show participativ care implică publicul într-o călătorie către apartenență spirituală. Prin prisma unui actor imigrant care se străduiește să se conecteze cu noul său mediu, spectacolul desfășoară o serie de întrebări despre rolurile noastre de oaspeți și gazde.

- Directed by: Cătălin Bocîrnea
- Performed by: Liviu Bora
- Developed during: Solo Sessions at RITCS Brussels

Between Pain and Amen

2019

Screen Work

Set Decorator & Actor

Historical drama inspired by the real events that took place in the Pitesti Prison during the communist regime in Romania, one of the most extreme political re-education experiments in Eastern Europe. The film explores themes of faith, torture, moral resistance and human limits under ideological violence.

TBD

- Director: Toma Enache
- Set Decorator & Actor: Bogdan Bocîrnea

I AM

2018

Spatial & Installation

Director

A runway that refuses to behave. Between simplicity and excess, bodies carry messages, reflect, distort, reinvent.

Un podium care refuză să se conformeze. Între simplitate și exces, corpurile poartă mesaje, reflectă, distorsionează, reinventează.

- Designer: Adriana Goilav
- Director: Cătălin Bocîrnea
- Choreography: Bogdan Olarson
- Performers: Crina Andriucă, Roxana Fânată, Luana Șeu, Raluca Munteanu, Cătălin Bocîrnea, Bogdan Olarson
- Music: Men-D
- Executive Producer: Thomas Mendel
- Video Editor: Petar Marković

Zero

2018

Spatial & Installation

Creator

Royal Museums of Fine Art Belgium

> "Zero is a chosen soul with one mother and a thousand fathers. > He is the new European product. > The new mark of cancellation: borders, identities, utopias. > This zero is my currency of exchange, the mark that financial systems have yet to invent. > But you created it, *pater incertus*, from everywhere."

> „Zero e un suflet ales, cu o singură mamă și o mie de tați. > El este noul produs european. > Noua marcă a anulării: granițe, identități, utopii. > Acest zero e moneda mea de schimb, marca pe care sistemele financiare încă n-au inventat-o. > Dar tu l-ai creat, *pater incertus*, de pretutindeni."

- Exhibit: Imre Balcaen
- Voices: Paula Rotar, Anneleen Lemmens
- Technical: Anthony Leliaert
- Photography: Veronique Bruyneel
- Commissioned by: Royal Museums of Fine Art Belgium for "Blut Und Poëzie: Berlin Brussels"

Why, Anton Pavlovici Chekhov?

2017

Stage Work

Director & Set Design

National Theater 'Lucian Blaga' Cluj-Napoca

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is dying. His characters visit him in his final days, unfolding a search for empathy and raw human feeling. It is not a study of personality or character, but a direct exploration of pure human sentiment in a Pirandellian space.

Anton Pavlovici Cehov moare. Personajele sale îl vizitează în ultimele zile, desfășurând o căutare a empatiei și a sentimentului uman în stare brută. Nu este un studiu de personalitate sau de caracter, ci o explorare directă a sentimentului uman pur într-un spațiu pirandellian. ## Awards - "Corneliu Todea" award for the best team of actors — Gala Hop 2017, Costinești, Romania - Audience award for the best performance — Gala Hop 2017 - Audience award for best actor (Cosmin Stănilă) — Gala Hop 2017

- Cast: Cosmin Stănilă, Irina Sibef, Alex Popa, Nicole Burlacu, Radu Dogaru
- Directing and Stage Design: Cătălin Bocîrnea
- Photography: Oana Monica Nae, Andrei Gîndac, Maria Stefanescu

Burning Island

2017

Spatial & Installation

Creator

Belgrade City Museum / Romanian Embassy in Serbia

Invited by painter Predrag Popara, *Burning Island* begins like a party — until it isn't. Four figures crash the room, overdressed, overpresent, asking dangerous questions. Chaplin echoes, games turn into spells, and before anyone notices the audience is no longer watching, but drifting inside the illusion.

Invitați de pictorul Predrag Popara, *Burning Island* începe ca o petrecere — până când nu mai e. Patru siluete năvălesc în sală, supraîmbrăcate, supraprezente, punând întrebări periculoase. Ecouri din Chaplin, jocurile se transformă în vrăji, și înainte ca cineva să observe, publicul nu mai privește, ci plutește înăuntrul iluziei.

- Performers: Paula Rotar, Roxana Fânată, Alex Chindriș, Crina Andriucă
- Music: Men-D
- Video Recordings and Edit: Luana Șeu
- Makeup: Paula Rotar
- Produced by: Thomas Mendel
- Special Thanks: Predrag Popara
- Hosted by: Funnel Contemporary Art

Marionette-ist

2017

Spatial & Installation

Creator

Q Caffe / Mendel Collective

In the surreal belly of Q Caffe, *Marionette-ism* begins without warning. Three marionettes slip among the drinkers, studying their hands, their faces, their small human tremors — hungry for feeling. The bar bends into a stage, the customers into witnesses, then into participants, and somewhere between a gesture and a gaze, a strange story begins to pull its strings.

În pântecul suprarealist al Q Caffe, *Marionette-ism* începe fără avertisment. Trei marionete se strecoară printre cei care beau, studiindu-le mâinile, fețele, micile tremururi umane — înfometate de simțire. Barul se curbează într-o scenă, clienții devin martori, apoi participanți, și undeva între un gest și o privire, o poveste stranie începe să-și tragă sforile.

- Performers: Roxana Fanata, Catalin Mocan, Crina Andriuca
- Body Painting and Makeup: Eva Dolha
- Music: Men-D
- Special Guest: Celestine Biduda
- Producer: Q Caffe and Mendel Collective

Meet Me in the Forest

2017

Spatial & Installation

Creator

A spontaneous afternoon meeting in the sunny city center of Cluj-Napoca between a young poet Maram Hmaidan, physical actress Crina Andriuca, resident music composer Men-D and myself as a fresh owner of his first super cheap drone got soon transformed into this video poem.

O întâlnire spontană într-o după-amiază însorită în centrul Clujului, între tânăra poetă Maram Hmaidan, actrița de teatru fizic Crina Andriuca, compozitorul rezident Men-D și eu, proaspăt proprietar al primei mele drone ieftine, s-a transformat curând în acest video-poem.

- Poet: Maram Hmaidan
- Performer: Crina Andriuca
- Music: Men-D
- Video Editing: Vatany Zsoly
- Created by: Cătălin Bocîrnea

Vamos a la Playa

2017

Spatial & Installation

Creator

Mendel Collective

Invited by Urbannect, *Vamos a la playa* — Bodies party, rules loosen, innocence misbehaves. Questions become games, games become provocations, and suddenly everyone remembers how to play too much, too loud, too late.

Invitați de Urbannect, *Vamos a la playa* — Corpurile fac petrecere, regulile se destind, inocența se poartă urât. Întrebările devin jocuri, jocurile devin provocări, și deodată toată lumea își amintește cum e să te joci prea mult, prea tare, prea târziu.

- Performers: Crina Andriuca, Oana Marcu, Roxana Fanata
- Music: Men-D
- Video Recordings: Deji.Ro, Luana Șeu
- Video Editing: Luana Șeu

Our Knees Touch!

2016

Stage Work

Director

Reactor de creație și experiment Cluj-Napoca

Violence enters through images, becomes a wound in those who look, and spreads until no one remains outside it. *My brother was twelve when, in a single, careless click, he could watch a beheading from ISIS propaganda (raw, immediate, impossible to unsee) while at the same time the image of two-year-old Alan Kurdi, lifeless on the shore, flooded every news channel, every screen, every space. Violence was no longer distant or mediated; it arrived whole, unfiltered, and stayed. "Our knees touch" was born out of a scream.*

Violența intră prin imagini, devine rană în cei care privesc și se răspândește până când nimeni nu mai rămâne în afara ei. *Fratele meu avea doisprezece ani când, dintr-un singur click neglijent, putea să vadă o decapitare din propaganda ISIS (brută, imediată, imposibil de ne-văzut), în timp ce imaginea lui Alan Kurdi, în vârstă de doi ani, fără viață pe țărm, inunda fiecare canal de știri, fiecare ecran, fiecare spațiu. Violența nu mai era îndepărtată sau mediată; sosea întreagă, nefiltrată, și rămânea. „Genunchii noștri se ating" s-a născut dintr-un țipăt.*

- Dramaturg: Adina Cristina Roman
- Video and Photo: Robert Puteanu
- Poster: Sergiu Lupse
- Translation: Cristina Cincu
- Cast: Balazs Bodolai, Raluca Mara, George Sfetcu, Cătălin Bocîrnea
- Directing: Cătălin Bocîrnea
- Producer: Reactor de creație și experiment Cluj-Napoca

Electronica Express

2016

Spatial & Installation

Creator

Mendel Collective

BRANCUSI 85 Electronica Express is a Mendel Collective monthly ritual of noise, image, and exposure. Through analog-digital projection, the audience becomes both surface and content. Driven by Micha Mendel's sonic architecture, the party unfolds as a living system — unstable, playful, and dangerously self-aware.

BRANCUSI 85 Electronica Express este un ritual lunar al Mendel Collective — zgomot, imagine și expunere. Prin proiecție analog-digitală, publicul devine deopotrivă suprafață și conținut. Condusă de arhitectura sonoră a lui Micha Mendel, petrecerea se desfășoară ca un sistem viu — instabil, ludic și periculos de conștient de sine.

I BEE Commercial

2016

Screen Work

Director

Saintech Technology Ltd UK

The world's first modular smart bracelet — IBee by Saintech Ltd UK.

Prima brățară inteligentă modulară din lume — IBee de la Saintech Ltd UK.

- Cast: Raluca Felezeu, Antonio Varriale
- Director: Cătălin Bocîrnea
- Camera Work & Edit: Douanutri

Agnus Dei

2015

Stage Work

Director

National Theater 'Lucian Blaga' Cluj-Napoca

Questions hang, politely unanswered. Faith and disbelief collide in silence. The atheist remains at the threshold… Is he untouched? > "true horror theater" — review excerpt. > Surprisingly, I liked this ridiculous labeling.

Întrebările plutesc, politicos fără răspuns. Credința și necredința se ciocnesc în tăcere. Ateul rămâne în prag… Este el neatins? > „teatru de groază veritabil" — fragment de cronică. > Surprinzător, mi-a plăcut această etichetare ridicolă.

- Scenography: Carmencita Brojboiu
- Cast: Irina Wintze, Miriam Cuibus, Alexandra Tarce
- Music Score: Serban Ursachi
- Voice: Maria Pandrea
- Light Design: Mădălina Mânzat
- Photography: Nicu Cherciu
- Directing: Cătălin Bocîrnea

The Chairs

2014

Stage Work

Director & Set Design

F.T.T. University of Babes-Bolyai & Varoterem Projekt - Zug Zone

Words break, snap, spill. Echoes scratch the air as memory bleeds through. Nostalgia turns toxic, clinging and invasive. Comedy jerks and mutates, exposed and painfully human. The mirror rips the space open. No distance left. You are pulled inside your own reflection, laughing.

Cuvintele se rup, se frâng, se revarsă. Ecourile zgârie aerul în timp ce memoria se scurge prin ele. Nostalgia devine toxică, agățătoare și invazivă. Comedia tresare și se transformă, expusă și dureros de umană. Oglinda sfâșie spațiul. Nu mai există distanță. Ești tras înăuntrul propriei tale reflecții, râzând.

- Cast: Racz Endre, Vass Zsuzsanna, Pál Attila
- Poster: Sergiu Lupse
- Directing and Set Design: Cătălin Bocîrnea
- Producers: F.T.T. University of Babes-Bolyai & Varoterem Projekt - Zug Zone

Fata Care Mănâncă Pizza

2014

Screen Work

Cast (self)

With The Girl Who Eats Pizza, cinema becomes a controlled situation. This early film already contains the central direction of Bocîrnea's work: building contexts in which reality, performance and perception continuously reshape each other.

TBD

- Directors: Adrian Carlugea, Bogdan Coste, Ion Indolean
- Cast: Bogdan Bocîrnea (self)

The Pillow Man

2013

Stage Work

Director & Set Design

A merciless study of cruelty, raw and grotesque, unfolding without pause and leaving the audience suspended in a lasting, inescapable shock. Selected among the 3 finalist shows at Gala Hop 2013, Costinești, Romania.

Un studiu nemilos al cruzimii, brutal și grotesc, desfășurându-se fără pauză și lăsând publicul suspendat într-un șoc durabil, de care nu poate scăpa. Selectat printre cele 3 spectacole finaliste la Gala Hop 2013, Costinești, România.

- Cast: Andrei Sabău, Patrick Sabastian Negrean, Cristian But, Raul Csokan, Flavia Giurgiu
- Dramaturg: Paula Dunca
- Video: Sergiu Lupse, Oana Onitz
- Directing and Set Design: Cătălin Bocîrnea