Silence and fog: on gesture, time, and historicity in the films of Aleksandr Sokurov
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- dc.contributor.author Pintor Iranzo, Ivan
- dc.date.accessioned 2023-05-23T06:14:13Z
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- dc.date.issued 2017
- dc.description.abstract In this study, I analyse gesture, iconography, and landscape construction in Aleksandr Sokurov’s lms to reveal their distinct handling of time and commitment to the historicity of their imagery. My hermeneutic point of departure is Aby Warburg’s alternative approach to the historicity of images, in particular his attention to the mechanisms of montage along with the anthropological aspiration to formulate a history of gesture transmission in the West. Warburg’s project can shed light on certain aspects of Sokurov’s poetics, specically on its relationship to literary, pictorial, and cinematic traditions. The gesture of silence, the so-called signum harpocraticum, holds a central position in Sokurov’s lmography underscoring the condition of mediality of the cinematic gesture itself. The gesture of silence establishes the deixis of a historical-political openness and of a dialectical moment through which the gure of the historical witness takes shape. As a reverse shot to this direct appeal to the spectator, images of fog, tempest, and storm promote not only a haptic visibility but also represent the mists of history. In these mists, Sokurov attempts to tease out and ultimately “seize hold of a memory at a moment of danger” (Walter Benjamin). The historical, the political, and the sacred are located in Sokurov’s lms between the gesture of silence and the depiction of fog.
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- dc.identifier.citation Pintor Iranzo I. Silence and fog: on gesture, time, and historicity in the films of Aleksandr Sokurov. Apparatus. 2017;(5):38 p. DOI: 10.17892/app.2017.0005.60
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.17892/app.2017.0005.60
- dc.identifier.issn 2365-7758
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56939
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Apparatus
- dc.relation.ispartof Apparatus. 2017;(5):38 p.
- dc.rights 2017 Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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- dc.subject.keyword Aleksandr Pushkin
- dc.subject.keyword Lev Tolstoi
- dc.subject.keyword Aleksandr Sokurov
- dc.subject.keyword Aby Warburg
- dc.subject.keyword Gilles Deleuze
- dc.subject.keyword Giorgio Agamben
- dc.subject.keyword Serge Daney
- dc.subject.keyword Artavazd Peleshian
- dc.subject.keyword Georges Didi-Huberman
- dc.subject.keyword Walter Benjamin
- dc.subject.keyword iconology
- dc.subject.keyword gesture
- dc.subject.keyword silence
- dc.subject.keyword signum harpocraticum
- dc.subject.keyword fog
- dc.subject.keyword storm
- dc.subject.keyword haptic visuality
- dc.title Silence and fog: on gesture, time, and historicity in the films of Aleksandr Sokurov
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