Open AccessKeynote Narration and Theory of Distance: Analysis of the Seasons
Author(s) -
Stepan V Fedotkin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
vestnik vgik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-2471
pISSN - 2074-0832
DOI - 10.17816/vgik9370-83
Subject(s) - narrative , disjoint sets , movie theater , repetition (rhetorical device) , motif (music) , literature , history , art , aesthetics , sociology , mathematics , philosophy , linguistics , mathematical analysis
The article explores the leitmotif narration in cinema, i.e. the one based on transitions from one leitmotif to another as exemplified by Artavazd Peleshians short non-fiction film Seasons of the Year. The peculiarity of Peleshians artistic method is that he does not proceed by relations between adjoining images but between the disjoint ones which results in their repetition. The dramaturgy of Seasons of the Year is based on transitions from one leit-motif to another. The main ones here, as well as in other Peleshians films, are the themes of cosmos and chaos.