In Cayman: Alex Rotaru

In this episode of In Cayman, we sit down with filmmaker, composer, educator, and polymath Alex Rotaru for a wide-ranging conversation that moves effortlessly between music, film, philosophy, freedom, and creativity.

Alex shares stories from his remarkable journey—from growing up in Romania under communism, to studying physics at MIT, to building a career in film, documentary, and music in the United States. Along the way, we explore how structure creates freedom, why limitations are essential to art, and how storytelling traditions from Aristotle to McKee still shape modern cinema.

We talk classical music and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Cayman’s cultural life, cold plunges, surfing at Zuma Beach, crypto and institutional power, and what it really means to be free in a modern world. Alex also dives into his films They Came to Play and Shakespeare High, his upcoming documentary Elvis, Rocky and Me: The Carol Connors Story, and his work as a songwriter, conductor, and teacher.

This is a conversation about art as discipline, creativity under constraint, and the strange, beautiful intersections between science, music, film, and life.


TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Welcome Alex Rotaru
1:17 CayMusicA: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
7:10 Cayman Creature Bites
9:13 Alex’s Impression of Cayman
11:09 Zuma Beach
13:26 Cold Plunges
15:30 Crypto: Gradually then Suddenly
19:30 Restrictions to Freedom
23:58 Film & Performance Theory: McKee, Aristotle, Campbell
37:18 Alex’s Education in the US and Romania
50:13 Alex’s film “They Came to Play”
53:21 Alex’s film”Shakespeare High”
58:10 Alex’s next film “Elvis, Rocky and Me: The Carol Connors Story”
1:00:59 Alex the Songwriter
1:02:09 Musical Intelligence
1:05:38 Alex’s son
1:09:00 Skiing
1:16:36 Conducting




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