FJORD. The Pictures | Exhibition Opening
Fri, Oct 02
|Romanian Cultural Institute
Palme d’Or-Winning Filmmaker Cristian Mungiu in Conversation with Roxana Marcoci, One of Contemporary Photography’s Leading Curatorial Voices
Time & Location
Oct 02, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Romanian Cultural Institute, 200 E 38th St, New York, NY 10016, USA
About The Event
The Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, in collaboration with Mobra Films in Romania and NEON, presents the official opening of FJORD. The Pictures, an exhibition of photographs by Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Cristian Mungiu, taken between August 2024 and April 2025 while scouting locations and preparing his latest film, FJORD. Shot entirely on a phone, the photographs capture people, landscapes, colors, gestures, and fleeting moments that drew Cristian Mungiu’s attention along the way, revealing a personal photographic practice that has long existed alongside his cinema work.
On Friday, October 2, Mungiu will be joined by Roxana Marcoci, The David Dechman Senior Curator and former Acting Chief Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), for a special conversation marking the exhibition’s official opening. Taking FJORD. The Pictures as its point of departure, their exchange will offer a rare opportunity to encounter this less familiar dimension of Mungiu’s work through a…