Xandra Popescu is the curator and producer of the screening chapter and initial website D’EST Prologue: O’ Mystical East and West (2016). She works as a writer, filmmaker, and curator in Berlin and Bucharest. From 2012 to 2016, together with Larisa Crunțeanu she led Atelier 35, one of the most active project spaces in Bucharest. She has a background in political science and philosophy and studied dramatic writing at the National Film and Theater University in Bucharest. Popescu has written for cinema and works as a filmmaker at the intersection of the narrative and the visual. Currently she is in the process of setting up Eroika, a production framework for female artists and directors from the former East.