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Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark Forget Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco entering the restaurant in Goodfellas or Hitchcock s oneshot chamberplay Rope sokurov stages Russian Ark as a http://worldfilm.about.com/library/weekly/aafpr121302.htm
Extractions: zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About World / Independent Film Home Essentials ... Online Movies zau(256,152,180,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); DVD Directors Actors Actresses ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Subscribe to the About World / Independent Film newsletter. Search World / Independent Film Review Russian Ark The Hermitage in St. Petersburg served as location for "Russian Ark," a lush meditation on history, art, and Russia in the guise of a bravura filmmaking stunt: all of the film's 97 minutes were shot in one single, relentless take. Forget Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco entering the restaurant in "Goodfellas" or Hitchcock's one-shot chamberplay "Rope" Sokurov stages "Russian Ark" as a feat of logistics and coordination in the sprawling building with a cast of over 800 actors and several hundred extras. The camera swoops and glides, drifts, pulls in, and sails through doors opened just in time by the invisible narrator or one of his mysterious companions. Neither he nor we are particularly sure why we are there; as we pass gilded halls, paintings by the masters, scenes from Russian history, diplomatic receptions, and the climactic ball complete with live orchestra, we search for clues, connections, and meaning. The uninterrupted flow seduces into a trance.
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Extractions: This text has been submitted as an original contribution to cinetext on September 12, 2002. It is also available as PDF-document It has generally been agreed upon that Sokurov is to be considered as the "new Tarkovsky". There are certainly numerous reasons for this rapprochement , and one of the most pertinent ones is that Sokurov achieves, like Tarkovsky, the creation of dream within the art of cinema. However, though it is too early to speak about tendencies in Sokurov criticism - there simply is not enough of it yet - it is notable that, while Tarkovsky stimulated, also through his own writings, interpretations of his "dreams» through quasi-metaphysical concepts like "dream-time" or "dream-logic", Sokurov's work seems to inspire more aesthetic-perspectival intepretations evoking the existence of dreamlike "landscape paintings", perhaps happily summarized in the word "dreamscape". In Sokurov's films, the dreamlike ontological condition tends to be described as a "scape" linked to the metaphor of painting. Even natural sounds like wind or half-heard music (audible in Mother and Son ), are likely to be described as an atmospheric and painterly "soundscape". This presents a contrast with Tarkovsky whose films have never been much described as "landscapes" and even less as "paintings". Tarkovsky's dreamlike spaces appear more as mental "zones", more or less linked to human civilization, and their theoretical elaboration seems to work better through the use of "structures" and "logic" than through "paintings" or "scapes".
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Extractions: With New York's Museum of Modern Art and Cinematheque Ontario gearing up for a major traveling retrospective of his films (debuting at MOMA in February 2002), Sokurov agreed to engage in the following exchange with me between the screenings of Taurus at Cannes in May and Elegy of a Voyage at the Venice Film Festival in Septemberall the while preparing his ninety-minute single take of an elaborate mise-en-scene at the Hermitage, intriguingly titled Waterloo. LAUREN SEDOFSXY: How did you come to treat the screen as a two-dimensional Surface? LS: How does this involve altering photographic perspective?
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Extractions: Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov, who has more than 50 feature films and documentaries to his credit, is rated by the European Film Academy as one of the world's best 100 directors. His new project The Sun, which is about Japan's Emperor Hirohito, is the final instalment of a trilogy dedicated to 20th century leaders. The first, his 1999 release Moloch concentrated on Hitler's personal life, while Taurus, which came out in 2000, focused on Lenin's last days. Critics have called all three pictures art for the select. "The trilogy is about hubris, which rules the world and pushes humanity into a dead-end," Yuri Arabov, who wrote the script for all three movies with Alexander Sokurov, said in a RIA Novosti interview. "The protagonists are lost souls who take it on themselves to save the world and influence the destinies of millions of people, but fail to share even a tiny bit of their warmth with their own close ones. At any rate, this is how the films' makers view them". Arabov explains that arrogance is not defeated in Moloch, even though Eva Braun warns Hitler that there is one force that cannot be conquered, i.e., death. "The Fuhrer here is depicted as an utterly amoral personality," he says. "Taurus shows how arrogance can be overcome through suffering from a disease and physical immobility, because disease forces a person to think about what he has done in life. But Lenin, although he at times wanted to, fails to overcome his arrogance. The Sun will probably depict a victory over hubris."
Extractions: Documentarian, impressionist, historian, and renowned Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov has been creating works since the 1970s that are at times elusive but always mesmerizing. For Sokurov, time is a strong presence he draws from the past with archival footage and uses duration as a form of elegiac mourning rooting his work both in old customs and modern forms. His films consider the impact of individuals and the experience of daily life in a way that has transcended political upheavals, economic marginality, international language barriers, and shifting social customs. His heralded "elegies," the focus of this program, are perhaps best described as poetic and visual essays containing cinematic splendor, hermetic intensity, and a sense of suspended time.
Extractions: In 1990, Russia placed an economic blockade on Lithuania. Sokurov takes us inside the Lithuanian president's office and a housing blockplaces that have been silenced by Russian political power. Shooting in spare, silent black and white, Sokurov aesthetically conveys the cultural climate. 1990, Russia, video (original format 35mm), silent, 20 minutes. A record of a May 1 Labor Day fireworks celebration, Sokurov's Evening Sacrifice is comprised of ecstatic looks at urban crowds and beautifully composed shots of individual faces. Recalling the classic work of Eisenstein and Vertov, this frenetically edited work relies on gesture and facial expressions rather than dialogue to narrate an event. 1984-1987, Russia, video (original format 35mm), silent, 20 minutes.
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Extractions: Through a mist a small group of houses resolve into a tiny fishing village perched on an island. Like a dream, gorgeous images displace one another and we come to perceive our whereabouts. When a ship is wrecked one night during a fierce storm, the local fishermen head out the next morning in search for corpses which they respectfully lay out and cover on the beach. A painfully beautiful visual poem, Oriental Elegy is exceptional. WHISPERING PAGES "The shape of a dark world comes into view in slow pans which are only interrupted by cuts to a new location. We see the facades of dockland buildings, the catacomb-like arches of a sewerage system and coffin-like rooms of apartments on a large housing estate. The films slow, meditative pace concentrates not on action but on the whispering pages of the visible; its purpose is to make the viewer reflect sensitively on the eternal subject of crime and punishment."Hans-Joachim Schiegel
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Extractions: present : MOUSETRAP Moustrap is a specially curated programme of screenings, interactives, guests and forums which explore the impact of new technology on screen culture. The interactive exhibition will present a cross-section of the type of work that is flourishing internationally, ranging from lush feature-length productions like Ceremony of Innocence to smaller scale solo pieces like Maeda's Reactive Square and funky Japanese works such as First PC. Moustrap screenings will incorporate the most exciting and original new works selected from overseas digital festivals as well as local productions from emerging Australian talent. Amongst guest speakers will be US digital image pioneer Jim Ludtke, the mind behind the striking and surreal Residents CD-ROMs Freakshow, Gingerbread Man and Bad Day on the Midway, and Adam Gravois, director of the groundbreaking computer animation Golden Shoes. Mousetrap is supported by Cinemedia ALEXANDR SOKUROV Aleksandr Sokhurov's films are a rarity.
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Extractions: The second in Alexander Sokurov's teratology of films concerning twentieth century dictators, Taurus is a poetic and partially factual film of the last days of Russian revolutionary, Vladimir Ulyanov 'Lenin'. Holed up in the country and cared for by a determined doctor, his wife and a group of uniformed guardsmen, Lenin muses over his life with the ambiguity and vagueness of the old man that he is. With moments of extreme clarity and ramblings both poetic and pathetic, he unwittingly illuminates the state of contemporary Russia (and beyond?) and questions how man negotiates his place in the world. Such themes are consistent with Sokurov's other works, as is the strong visual rendering of the land. The white flowering fields where Lenin and his wife are placed for a picnic are particularly gorgeous. This and other whites (gowns and soft window lighting) provide impressionistic support to the murky greens that filter the entire picture. It's as if Lenin is a sunken ship filmed in the murky depths; his life, mind and political power slipping away. Thus whilst based on 'the facts', the film is ghostly and partially hypnotic. The story's historicism is played against a firm mysticism, exemplified by the film title and the fact Lenin was indeed, born a
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