Fish Have No Psychiatrists: a Day in the Life of Andrei Codrescu
a documentary film by Julian Semilian – Codrescu as subject
Julian Semilian’s film Fish Have No Psychiatrists: a Day in the Life of Andrei Codrescu is officially an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival 2024, and had its premier at the River Run Film Festival in Winston-Salem NC on 4/20/2024.
You can stream it for a limited time as part of the festival here
WFDD Public Radio affiliate provided a lovely interview with Julian. WFDD Interview with Julian 4.18.204
Here is an earlier interview with UNC School for the Arts regarding in independent film funding
Julian Semilian – Director & Producer Julian is an experimental filmmaker, film editor, teacher, poet, translator, and novelist. Aside from bing a well respected author and translator, he is an exceptional film editor –– who won’t tell you – until you’ve known him for years – that he learned his art from none other than Reginald Mills. Mills edited a number of the Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger films, including The Red Shoes. Julian is very modest. He’s a fantastic experimental film maker and an extraordinarily well loved professor of film
Julian and Andrei met in Italy in 1966 as both fled post WWII Romania – they actually arrived together in the US. If you get them together and give them a drink – they’ll regale you with stories of jumping from bridges, seductions by princesses and appearing in Pasolini films! I can’t wait to see how these two avant-savants meld on screen – Lynnea
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