Phenomenology of the human gaze
| Movie | |
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| German title | Phenomenology of the human gaze |
| Original title | Взгляды. Феноменология |
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| Country of production | Russia |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 52 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dmitri Sidorov |
| script | Dmitri Sidorow, Anna Ganschina |
| production | АНО «СевЗапКино» |
| camera | Alisher Hamidchodschajew |
| cut | Dmitri Sidorov |
Phenomenology of the human gaze (original title: Взгляды. Феноменология ) is an essay film by Russian director Dmitri Sidorow from 2002 . He is considered a key work of his work.
content of the film
The film examines the relationship between the camera and the people it filmed on the basis of old newsreel recordings from the St. Petersburg studio for documentary film. The author tells an imaginary counterpart ("my dearest") the story between man and camera in the 20th century like the story of a great love: from the naive, innocent first interest in each other, through further getting to know each other and living together to conflicts and separation and reunion.
About the film
"When I was working on 'Phenomenology ...', I was interested in the extent to which the image of a person persists after his death. What happened there was absolutely incomprehensible to me. After all, it is no longer man. His bones have long since rotten in the grave So what is it? This question can be mind boggling. There is nothing but stains. A combination of stains. And we don't know what it is. We can only say - and only to a limited extent - that we all do that see the same. " D. Sidorov
Prices
Leonid Gurevich Prize for the best screenplay at the International Documentary Film Festival Otkrytaja Rossija in Ekaterinburg, Russia 2003
Special jury award at the Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy , Poland 2003
FIPRESCI (the international Filmkritiker- and Film Journalists Association FIPRESCI ) at the Kraków Film Festival, Poland 2003
FICC (Fédération International des Ciné-Club) Don Quixote Prize at the Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy, Poland 2003
Quotes from the movie
“The roll of film on the cutting table turns slowly at first, then faster and faster. It is the same with the time of our lives, my dearest. With the difference that you can't rewind your life. "
“'You can regain lost space, never lost time,' said Napoleon. He didn't know anything about the film yet. "
“If a person is not looking at the camera, he is an average person, a symbol. If he does that, then he is alive to me. "
“It would be strange to be able to say 'That's me' to your own illustration. 'I'm not' - strange too. "
criticism
The film critic Alexej Gusew emphasizes the effect of the synchronization of the protagonists through the author's voice. He sees in this the unity of intonation, a calm flow of voice guidance: "The first-person narrator goes the way into the realm of the dead and back and only through him do we learn of this journey." Gusew thinks that the film must be shown in the first lesson in film schools, as “watch films” and “love the cinema” lessons.
The screenwriter and film scholar Andrej Schemjakin sees the film as an attempt to “track down the meaning of the gaze where one only recognizes stereotypes out of habit. These have to be overcome, they have to be fought against with the means of film montage. "
The film historian Naum Kleiman notes the intimate narrative style of the film and the author's infatuation with the cinema history: "... this film could actually be called" Cinema, mon amour ", which on the other hand enumerates all the torments of love, except for Affirmation of love. " Kleiman recalls Pudowkin's concept of 'close-up time': "When what happens on the screen in slow motion that usually gallops past within a second in the newsreel, you suddenly have the opportunity to look at facial expressions, gait, weather and people's clothes . And so what previously appeared as trivialities, nuances or even garbage suddenly takes on meaning. "
Web links
Film The phenomenology of the human gaze Russian. Original version with eng. UT on Vimeo
Individual evidence
- ↑ Умер режиссер Дмитрий Сидоров . Гильдия Неигрового Кино и Телевидения. March 23, 2016. Accessed June 19, 2018.
- ↑ Константин Шавловский: "Битые пиксели" . «Сеанс». March 24, 2016. Retrieved June 19, 2018
- ↑ Алексей Гусев: Cinema, mon amour . «Сеанс». Retrieved June 19, 2018
- ↑ a b Обсуждение в киноведческом клубе Синефантом «Новое документальное кино: Дмитрий Сидоров“ зглядоров “. Феноменология ”. Константин Шавловский “Кто-то, но не ты» . Сине Фантом. August 27, 2009. Retrieved June 19, 2018