Eight Postcards from Utopia is a found-footage documentary assembled exclusively out of post-socialist Romanian advertisements.
Drawing from the debris of Romania’s long transition period, the film speaks about love and death, the human body and its frailty, the natural and the supernatural and of course, socialism and capitalism.

Bouncing between found poetry and an outdated encyclopedia, between trash art and Summa theologiae, EIGHT POSTCARDS sees Radu Jude teaming up with philosopher Christian Ferencz-Flatz to make another hilarious and unforgiving take down of meta capitalist mythology.

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“”A supercut historical document out of disparate pieces of marketing.”
“[ Eight Postcards & Sleep#2 ] Will stand out as two of the iconoclastic
filmmaker’s most interesting audiovisual experiments.””
Indiewire

“Uniquely revealing.”
“Lingers in the mind as a sharp sociopolitical tangram that could be assembled
any number of ways to differing academic and emotional effect:
a vision of rebuilding or destruction, hope or nihilistic collapse,
depending on what you’re willing to buy.”
Variety

“A mischievous piece of cultural criticism.”
“Bearing his signature blending of humor
with uncomfortable realities.”
Roger Ebert

“An experiment in sardonic screen archeology.”
Sight and Sound

“Radu Jude teases the profound out of the profane
with a manic, comical collage of material.”
The Film Verdict

“One of a kind.”
“Jude and Ferencz-Flatz prove themselves to be avid
connoisseurs of – thankfully – long-forgotten TV moments.”
Cineuropa