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An immersive theatrical journey through media and time in Sokurov’s “Russian Ark”

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dc.contributor.authorChinita, Fátima
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-28T12:01:46Z
dc.date.available2022-02-28T12:01:46Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractUnlike other films by Alexander Sokurov, "Russian Ark" (2002) is more theatrical than pictorial. I contend the film should be interpreted as a metaphorical representation of an immersive theatrical performance of the space-based variety. The film is structured as a walking journey throughout the parts of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg most connected with imperial Russia and its mythical import. Orchestrated as a grandiose spectacle, the film proposes to immerse the viewers in history and art in a celebrated architectural complex, providing the spectators with the impression of “being there”. This is accomplished through two important narrative devices: the external/internal focalization with an unseen contemporary wandering male, whose voice is that of Sokurov himself, and the deliberate mixture of times. Many characters belonging to several different historical periods – from yesterday’s celebrated monarchs to current real-life people ̶ are linked together in the same space in a Genettian metalepsis, also corresponding to the mingling of times in a museological space and to the efabulatory impetus of all fiction per Jean Bessière. The contact with the historical personages amounts to a brush with theatrical scenes in the form of re-enactments, as is the case in immersive performances. The staging of such encounters obeys the logic of the tableau aesthetic in several of its nuances, to which the absence of archival footage further contributes. In short: "Russian Ark" is a film to be experienced, both at a sensuous level and a cognitive one.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.isbn9781474435499
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/14345
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherEdinburgh University Presspt_PT
dc.subjectImmersive theatrept_PT
dc.subjectSpace-based performancespt_PT
dc.subjectTableaupt_PT
dc.subjectMetalepsispt_PT
dc.subjectIntermedialitypt_PT
dc.subjectRussian arkpt_PT
dc.subjectAlexander Sokurovpt_PT
dc.titleAn immersive theatrical journey through media and time in Sokurov’s “Russian Ark”pt_PT
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oaire.citation.startPage163pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleCaught in-between intermediality in contemporary eastern european and russian cinemapt_PT
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