GEO BARCAN


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Surge of Transference

2024, 15 mins | 4K & MPEG video, found footage | English with English Subtitles.











Supported by: Salwa Foundation




Surge of Transference examines the arrival of the internet in a small Romanian town, where communities formed around imported Western technologies. Within this micro-universe, the work traces the internet’s rapid evolution, from early peer-to-peer networks to the logics of online late capitalism. Shifting between documentary, personal essay and science fiction, it follows residents of Buhuși as they navigate the gap between polished online imaginaries and the post-industrial realities of everyday life, while also reflecting on the materiality of the digital world. 






Screenings, Exhibtions 

Ways of Sensing: Signals in Circulation, @Instrument Inventors, The Hague, 2026
Videoclub, @Spore Initiative, Berlin, 2025
Simultan Festival, Timisoara, 2025
Fekk, Ljubljana Short Film Festival, 2025
Connecting to Peers, @Contemporar, group exhibition, Cluj, 2025
International Film Festival Rotterdam, official selection, Rotterdam, 2025
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest, 2024 
Les Films De Cannes a Bucharest, 2024 
Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova, 2024 
Li-Ma: Bring Your Own File, @The Grey Space, The Hague, 2024 
Rotterdams Open Doek, screening, Rotterdam, 2024 
Shovel:Hammer:Axe, @WET, group exhibition, Rotterdam, 2024
Go Short Film Festival, official selection, Nijmigen, 2024
Internet Café, @W139, group exhibition, Amsterdam



Awards

Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, special mention for visual concept, 2024 


Born in a small town in Romania and, as her entire generation, raised on the Internet, Geo Barcan uses a very open-form, soft Science Fiction video essay to retell the local history of early Internet connections. Remixing tens of improbable images, familiar and documentary, personal and semi-fictional, she sets them all to the rhythm of various narratives. Looking back at the early years — of her own life, of Romanian late capitalism and of the Internet —, those technolibertarian peer-to-peer connections from after the end of history, with their improvised antennas hanging down the walls of brezhnevkas, are perceived by the filmmaker as one of those many beautiful utopias of the “new” world, forever postponed in Romania ever since. But what if the utopias so much desired by our culture already exist in nature? Surge of Transference imagines an offline peer-to-peer future. (Călin Boto, curator BIEFF)


Press

Nero Editions
Films in Frame Magazine
Film Krant













Credits


Camera:
Geo Barcan,
Ollie Paterson

Editing:
Geo Barcan

Voice over:
Geo Barcan

Executive producer:
Ioana Pop


Music by: 
Noise Diva, 
Marcel Heckerman, 
Tisa World, Marsh, 
General Magic & Pita

Writing support: 
Georgiana Cojocaru 

Found Footage: 
Internet Archive, 
Tutorial Video, 
personal archive. 










geo@geobarcan.com