Daoi is a short experimental video, loosely based on an ancient Romanian folk tale.

Conceived during the US invasion in Iraq, Daoi follows the death and transformations of a soldier in a hallucinatory narrative. Shot almost exclusively with a webcam connected to a laptop, Alex Dragulescu and Mark Oliver are exploring lo-fi aesthetics and the ways personal and collective memories reinterpret and mutate history and myth.

web cam footage

6.5 minutes