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CENTO PIEDI (A Hundred Steps) deals with recent themes of the Romanian society: identity, image and immigration for work purposes. Immigration has become a widespread phenomenon in the last couple of years. The location of the movie centers around one of the kernels of the Romanian exodus ?Rome, the capital of Italy. The Eternal City, has played a crucial role in the history of the formation and establishment of the Romanian tongue and nation (through the conquest of Dacia in 105-106 the emperor Trajan has Latinized the Dacian people around the Danube river leading to the formation of the Romanian language). In Rome, on the site of Trajan?s Forum, we can nowadays find ?Trajan?s Column? who described through exceptional relieves the two Dacian wars. This monument is not only a masterpiece of ancient Rome but also the symbol of the birth of the Romanian people. The structure of the narrative in this movie unfolds on two parallel grounds of action through which two spaces will be defined: the Internal one (inside the column of Trajan) and the Exterior one (outside the column and on the forum).

Aurelia Mihai is an artist and filmmaker born in Bucharest, Romania who lives and works in Bucharest and in Hamburg, Germany. She is professor at the Braunschweig University of Art, Germany since 2009. Aurelia Mihai?s video work has been the recipient of numerous prizes and scholarships that include the E STAR Scholarship from the Institut for Electronic Arts, Alfred, New York and the Villa Aurora Scholarship, Los Angeles, USA (2001), the EMARE Scholarship Hull Time Based Arts, UK (2004), Prize for young artists of Düsseldor (2001), Prix Spiridon-Never-DuMont (2002), Euregio Kunstpreis / Germany / NL (2005), Hamburger Arbeitsstipendium für Bildende Kunst, Scholarship Schloss Ringenberg (2005), Project scholarship for short films, BBRKM, Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Germany (2009) , German Academy in Rome, - Villa Massimo (2007), Italy, and IASPIS, International Artist Studio Programme Stockholm, Sweden (2010). Her works have been exhibited internationally at the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, K21 Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle Mainz, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany, at the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, The Cheekwood Art Museum, Nashville Tennessee, USA , Centre Pompidou, Paris, Centre International d`Art Contemporain de Pont Aven/ FR, Cobra Museum in Amstelveen, NL.