Open AccessA Symbolic Visual Structures in A. Sokurov's cinema
Author(s) -
Margarita Yevgenievha Tikhonova
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
vestnik vgik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-2471
pISSN - 2074-0832
DOI - 10.17816/vgik3341-52
Subject(s) - dialectic , movie theater , film director , metaphysics , the symbolic , aesthetics , composition (language) , art , philosophy , psychology , visual arts , literature , psychoanalysis , epistemology
The article examines some instruments of A. Sokurov's visual language, i.e. the system of symbolic structures which allow the filmmaker to reveal the metaphysics of life and death, to show the dialectics of the outer and inner vision. The principles of incorporating the system in question into the film's composition are viewed as exemplified by the films The Lonely Voice of Man and Mother and Son.