Andrei Ujica, born in 1951 in Timișoara, Romania, is a renowned filmmaker and professor known for his documentaries on the end of communism. His most iconic film, Videograms of a Revolution (1992), co-directed with Harun Farocki, explores the relationship between political power and the media at the end of the Cold War. His second film, Out of the Present (1995), about cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, has been compared to classics such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris. Ujica completed his trilogy on the end of communism with The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu. In 2001, Ujica became a film professor at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and founded the ZKM Film Institute, where he currently serves as director.
