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Totality Decomposed: Objectalizing Late Socialism in Post‐Soviet Biochronicles
Author(s) -
OUSHAKINE SERGUEI ALEX.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the russian review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9434
pISSN - 0036-0341
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9434.2010.00585.x
Subject(s) - slavic languages , slavic studies , socialism , citation , art history , history , criticism , classics , art , library science , literature , political science , law , computer science , communism , politics
We proclaim the old feature films, with their romance, theatricality and so on, to be leprous. — Do not get close to them! — Do not touch them with your eyes! — Lethal! — Contagious! We affirm the future of cinema art by denying its present. “Cinematography” must die so that the art of cinema may live. WE call for its death to be hastened. ... For his inability to control his movement, WE temporarily exclude man as a subject for film. ... Kinochestvo is the art of organizing the necessary movements of objects in space and time as a rhythmical artistic whole, in harmony with the properties of the material and the internal rhythm of each object.