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TIFF posters feature AI attrocity

Posted on June 3, 2025 by Fatca Pop

Posters promoting the Transylvania International Film Festival for 2025 depict an “audience” enjoying a screening beneath what looks like a futuristic fascist spaceship and accompanied by two robots, with Saint Michael’s church depicted with an evil eye above it. This … Continue reading →

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MINA – Museum of immersive New Art – partial review

Posted on January 9, 2025 by Fatca Pop

We went to Mina, the Museum of Immersive New Art, in Cluj.  At fifty lei a person (40 lei for reduced tickets) you would think you got to see the entire museum.  Instead, you see a series of three short … Continue reading →

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Banffy Castle

Posted on June 26, 2024 by Fatca Pop

Have you been to Electric Castle?  Have you seen Metropolis or Nosferatu with live music at the film festival in the castle?  If so, you probably know what Banffy Castle looks like at night. The Banffy Castle in Bontida is … Continue reading →

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Portuguese language theatre, this weekend, in Cluj

Posted on April 21, 2023 by eReporter

Ezen a hétvégén, Kolozsváron, nyelven portugálul, A SALEMI BOSZORKÁNYOK van. Yes, Hungarian might be a hard language to understand at first, even harder than Portuguese.  So, unless you speak Hungarian, you might be reading the Romanian or English subtitles when … Continue reading →

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Review – The Hungarian Theatre in Cluj

Posted on March 17, 2023 by eReporter

Is the Hungarian language theatre for English speakers? Yes. Not only can you read English (and Romanian) subtitles but the announcements to take your seat before the performance and at the end of the break are also in three languages.  … Continue reading →

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Cluj Art degrees worth millions

Posted on December 7, 2022 by James

A graduate of the University of Art and Design (UAD)  in Cluj, Andrian Ghenie, has sold a painting in Hong Kong for seven million Euros. UAD is supposedly the lowest ranked University in Cluj Napoca.  How do they do the … Continue reading →

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