Open AccessTHE POETICS OF THE CITY IN THE FILM “VIBRATIONS OF GRANADA” (1935) BY J. VAL DEL OMAR
Author(s) -
Olga V. Kolotvina,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
artikulʹt
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2227-6165
DOI - 10.28995/2227-6165-2021-2-57-68
Subject(s) - narrative , metaphor , art , meaning (existential) , representation (politics) , poetry , poetics , character (mathematics) , paradise , drama , literature , conceptualization , aesthetics , visual arts , art history , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , geometry , mathematics , politics , political science , law
The article reviewed the main cinematic techniques, themes and motives used by J. Val del Omar for the lyrical conceptualization of the image of the city in the film “Vibrations of Granada” (1935) and analyzed their semantics. It demonstrates how the documentary narrative splits into pure representation and an area of allegorical tension, supported by key metaphors as sources of expanded motives. The metaphor of the Garden of Eden represents Granada as an image of Paradise; the use of the motive of water as the main element of drama contributes to the actualization of philosophical semantics and in combination with the green filter through which the film is projected, forms the fabulous-onyric character of the narrative; the visual motive of verticality created by camera angles, editing, etc, acquires the axiological meaning of the city's spiritual aspiration upward. It is revealed that the film’s style was influenced by the optics of cinematic impressionism, the R. Flaherty’s documental aesthetics and the poetic images of F. Garcia Lorca. This artistic program permits consideration of the film as an ethnographically and existentially accentuated version of the films of the “city symphony” of the 1920s and 1930s.