21. Requiem: The Visionary Films Of Russian Master Alexander Sokurov Alexander Sokurov’s reputation as a purveyor of intense, “spiritual” films was sealed by Directed by Alexander Sokurov USSR 1990, 35 mm, color, 92 min http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/calendars/02marapr/sokurov.htm

DIRECTORS IN FOCUS Requiem: The Visionary Films Of Alexander Sokurov This retrospective was organized by James Quandt at the Cinematheque Ontario in collaboration with Jytte Jensen of the Film and Video Department, Museum of Modern Art, New York, with generous assistance from Alexei Jankowski, Studio Bereg, St. Petersburg. MOTHER AND SON (Mat i syn) March 8 (Friday) 7 pm March 12 (Tuesday) 9 pm Directed by Alexander Sokurov Germany /Russia 1997, 35mm, color, 73 min. With Alexei Ananishnov, Gudrun Geyer Russian with English subtitles Mother and Son is a slow, soft, and sad poem about the last day of a woman weakened by disease, and about the loving son who cares for her in her remote cabin home. Formal elements converge to reinforce the elegiac tone: the whispering wind, crashing waves, sea-gull cries, and other natural sounds recall the glissandi of violins; the images, distorted by filming through painted glass panes, mirrors, and special lenses, are reminiscent of German Romantic painting; the pace of the film verges on stillness, as though fixing on the moment between life and death, consciousness and oblivion. In the triumphantly pre-Freudian universe of the film, the parent is a literal burden who is carried through the world by her son in a sort of reverse pieta. DAYS OF THE ECLIPSE (Dni zatmeniya) March 8 (Friday) 8:30 pm Directed by Alexander Sokurov USSR 1988, 35mm, color, 133 min.

22. Http://sokurov.info - The Unofficial Site Of Alexander Sokurov Alexander SOKUROV The history of an artist s soul is a very sad history.. New Plane Songs Lauren Sedofsky talks with Alexander SOKUROV http://sokurov.info/sokurov_main_eng.htm

http://sokurov.info sl="1.3" advanced russian version here Common resources The official site (has English version) Bibliography 1978-1997 (in Russian) Andrew Horton's Sokurov archive THE RUSSIAN ARK ... showtimes and dazzling reviews Interviews Alexander SOKUROV : "The history of an artist's soul is a very sad history.." Alexander SOKUROV: "I don't like cinema" Alexander SOKUROV on the Foundations of Film Art New: Plane Songs: Lauren Sedofsky talks with Alexander SOKUROV Leonid MOZGOVOJ: "She thought I could match" Vladimir PERSOV. Images of War, Cinema of the Spirit Reviews The Second Circle Whispering pages Mother and son (by Nick CAVE) Mother and son (by Donato TOTARO) ... The days of Eclipse ("Central European Review") Books dolce, Tokyo, 2001 Sokurov, Tokyo, 1996 Video VHS @ ozon.ru. Japanese stories ( Oriental elegy A Humble Life dolce VHS @ ozon.ru. ... The Second Circle New: DVD Oriental Elegy, A Humble Life, dolce mailto:Alexander Drunin

23. Alexander Nikolajewitsch Sokurow - Wikipedia Translate this page (Weitergeleitet von Alexander Sokurov). Alexander Nikolajewitsch Sokurow (russisch ? ?, wiss. Transliteration Aleksandr Nikolaevic http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Sokurov

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24. ALEXANDER SOKUROV & HIS CINEMA OF SPIRITUAL OPPRESSION alexander sokurov is a director, who possesses an enormous cinematic gift. for The Spiritual Worlds of alexander sokurov Part Two http://www.hal-pc.org/~questers/Sokurov.html

BUÑUEL PARADJANOV KUROSAWA BRESSON ... GODARD The Spiritual Worlds of Alexander Sokurov PART ONE: Sokurov's Cinema of Spiritual Oppression (A Reflection on the Film "Mother and Son") Sorry, your browser doesn't suppor Java. (You can move the lens with your cursor.) Alexander Sokurov is a director, who possesses an enormous cinematic gift. It is, therefore, doubly regrettable that along with some high accomplishments, he has produced some low points as well. Films like "Save and Protect" and "Moloch" are downright embarrassments for a director of such high caliber (and "Russian Ark", while being a fine work of art, is just a little too superficial). Fortunately, he has more than made up for that with such remarkable films as "Man's Lonely Voice" and "Second Circle". However, his film "Mother and Son" can be considered to be the pinnacle of his output so far. Sokurov's style of filmmaking is often compared to that of Andrei Tarkovsky. However, Sokurov himself, while not resenting the comparison, does resist this linkage:

25. Moloch MOLOCH Di Sokurov SOKUROV Recensione del film di alexander sokurov dedicato agli ultimi giorni di vita di Adolf Hitler, a cura di Vito Casale. http://www.centraldocinema.it/Recensioni/1-5/moloch.htm

Home il Meglio del web Moloch Interessante prova del regista siberiano Sokurov, autore di film intensi come "Madre e figlio". Stile registico inconfondibile: silenzi infiniti, luci evanescenti, immagini pittoriche, la morte che aleggia silenziosa: bagliori di poesia sublime. L’immobilismo come tentativo di esorcizzare la morte o allontanarla anche solo per un attimo, o forse catturarla per sempre... I personaggi di Moloch sembrano quasi appartenere al teatro, ad una piece simil-brechtiana in cui si vuole denunciare l’assurdo che si cela spesso nel vivere. A tratti, e questo è uno dei limiti del film, sembrano la parodia, la caricatura di se stessi. A volte si sconfina nel grottesco (Hitler chiede "cos'è Auschitwz?"). Assai evidente lo stridore tra il ritratto di un uomo fragile e meschino, emblea del male nel mondo (Moloch), e la leggerezza di Eva che conserva una curiosa sintonia con la natura. Vito Casale Vai alle recensioni numeri precedenti

26. Aleksandr Sokurov (show more). Sometimes Credited As. alexander sokurov In One Breath alexander sokurov s Russian Ark (2003) (V) (as alexander sokurov) . Director http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812546/

Home Top Movies Photos Independent Film ... Register to personalize All Titles My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots More searches Tips IMDbPro.com free trial Showing page 1 of 16 categorized combined sorted by ratings sorted by votes titles for sale ... biography other works publicity contact information photo gallery news articles on tv this week official site miscellaneous photographs sound clip(s) video clip(s) Aleksandr Sokurov Date of birth (location) 14 June Podorvikha, Soviet Union (now Russia) Mini biography (show more) Sometimes Credited As: Alexander Sokurov IMDbPro Professional Details Filmography as: Director Writer Cinematographer Actor ... Notable TV Guest Appearances Director - filmography Solntse Otets i syn ... aka Father and Son (International: English title) Russian Ark ... aka Russian Ark - Eine einzigartige Zeitreise durch die Eremitage (Germany) ... aka Russkiy kovcheg (Russia) Telets ... aka Elegy of a Voyage (Europe: English title) Dolce Molokh ... aka Moloch (France) (Germany) Uzel ... aka The Knot (1998) (mini) Mat i syn ... aka Mother and Son (USA) ... aka Mutter und Sohn (Germany) Robert. Schastlivaya zhizn

27. Alexander N. Sokurov [Sokurow] Translate this page sokurov, alexander Nikolaevic (geb. 1951), ?, ? . russischer Filmregisseur. alexander sokurov wurde bei Irkutsk geboren. http://alenos.piranho.de/erbe/sokurov.htm

SOK U (geb. 1951), russischer Filmregisseur. Alexander Sokurov wu rde bei Irkutsk geboren. Zwischen 1969 und 1975 arbeitete er beim Fernsehen in Nižniy Novgorod , danach als Regisseursassistent. Parallel dazu hat er ein Geschichtsstudium abgeschlossen, anschließend ein Regissurstudium in Moskau. 1978 erschien Sokurovs Debutfilm Maria , der, wie 11 weitere Werke Sokurovs, erst mit dem Einsetzen der Perestrojka im Jahre 1987 erscheinen durfte. Die Diplomarbeit Sokurovs war der Film (Einsame Stimme des Menschen, 1978), der nach einem Roman von Andrei Platonov gedreht wurde. Der Film wurde sogleich beinahe zerstört, im Jahr 1987 bekam er beim Filmfestival in Locarno jedoch den Bronzenen Leoparden. Erst in der zweiten Hälfte der achtziger Jahre bekam Sokurov die Möglichkeit, seine Filme an den Zuschauer zu bringen. Zu seinen Werken gehören neben mehreren Dokumentarfilmen, zu denen Moskovskaia élegia (Moskauer Elegie) und Duhovnye golosa (Geistesstimmen) zählen, auch Filme wie Spasi i sohrani (Rette und behüte) nach "Madame Bovary" von Gustave Flaubert und

28. Sokurov, Alexander /Pantalla.info Translate this page Ficha personal de alexander sokurov. Nombre real Alexandr Nikolayevich sokurov Lugar y fecha de nacimiento 14 de junio de 1951 Podorvikha , Rusia http://www.pantalla.info/persona/40/40085.html

Ficha personal de Alexander Sokurov Nombre real: Alexandr Nikolayevich Sokurov Lugar y fecha de nacimiento: 14 de junio de 1951 Podorvikha , Rusia Filmografía selecta: Dirección El arca rusa (Russian Ark, 2002) Madre e hijo (Mat i syn, 1997) Guión El arca rusa (Russian Ark, 2002) persona título personaje Lo que ellas quieren La lista de Schindler Mi secreto me condena Pandillas de Nueva York ... XXX 2 Estado de Emergencia

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30. Museu D'Art Contemporani De Barcelona alexander sokurov Confession , 1998 (fotograma) sokurov, alexander. Podorvikha (Siberia), Rússia 1951. Confession. Sèrie The Military , 1998 http://www.macba.es/controller.php?p_action=show_page&pagina_id=29&inst_id=19544

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34. Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark Jurgen Fauth reviews alexander sokurov s Russian Ark http://worldfilm.about.com/library/weekly/aafpr121302.htm

zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Entertainment World / Independent Film Entertainment ... Help zau(256,140,140,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/C.htm','');w(xb+xb+' ');zau(256,140,140,'von','http://z.about.com/0/ip/496/6.htm','');w(xb+xb); FREE Newsletter Sign Up Now for the World / Independent Film newsletter! See Online Courses Search World / Independent Film Review Russian Ark Guide Rating - The Hermitage in St. Petersburg served as location for "Russian Ark," a lush meditation on history, art, and Russia in the guise of a bravura filmmaking stunt: all of the film's 97 minutes were shot in one single, relentless take. Forget Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco entering the restaurant in "Goodfellas" or Hitchcock's one-shot chamberplay "Rope" Sokurov stages "Russian Ark" as a feat of logistics and coordination in the sprawling building with a cast of over 800 actors and several hundred extras. The camera swoops and glides, drifts, pulls in, and sails through doors opened just in time by the invisible narrator or one of his mysterious companions. Neither he nor we are particularly sure why we are there; as we pass gilded halls, paintings by the masters, scenes from Russian history, diplomatic receptions, and the climactic ball complete with live orchestra, we search for clues, connections, and meaning. The uninterrupted flow seduces into a trance.

35. Untitled Document Russian Ark and Elegies of a Voyage, sokurov, alexander (2002) Paik, Viola, Boustani, Bukanowski, Brakhage, Sharits, Acconci, Sturtevant, Graham, Mccarthy http://hishambizri.com/ucdavis/winter04/art116/Syllabus.htm

Syllabus ART 116 TECHNOLOGIES OF THE MOVING IMAGE: TOPICS IN FILM, VIDEO, AND INSTALLATION ART THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS WINTER 2004 CLASS INFO Professor: Hisham Bizri Email: hb@hishambizri.com Voice: (530) 752 - 2131 Course hours: TR 1:00-4:00 Teaching Assistant: Norma Beirne, nbeirne@pacbell.net SYLLABUS Course Description Technologies of the moving image have shaped 20th century art and culture. Although much has been said about the impact of technologically mass-produced moving images on our consciousness, little has been said about the place technology has played in the language of moving images as art. Course Requirements and Grading 1. Mandatory class attendance and arriving on time 2. Assignments must be completed on time. Late assignments are not permitted 3. Students must participate in class discussions 4. Weekly presentations and projects (40%) 5. In-class mid-term paper (30%) 6. Final Project (30%)

36. Blogcritics.org: Song Of The Long Road: Alexander Sokurov's Mother And Son Blogcritics alexander sokurov s 1997 experiment (of sorts) with visuals, length and tone reveals itself to also be a beautiful, ambigious, http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/02/02/003231.php

Blogcritics recommends Cyberwurx Hosting with blog hosting as low as $5/month Jump to: main content Blogcritics Home A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, technology, and politics. Search SPOTLIGHT ON: CINDY SHEEHAN EDITORS' PICKS HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE REAL WORLD: AUSTIN ... 1 YEAR AGO TODAY IN BLOGCRITICS BLOGCRITIC OF THE DAY Visit and Pay Homage: LAURA YOUNG Are you a blogger? JOIN BLOGCRITICS SAVE TIME AND MONEY! Blogcritics is your BUYER'S GUIDE Follow the AMAZON links! Buy Now! Top Posters Most prolific Blogcritics for July Chris Beaumont gypsyman David R. Mark Eric Olsen ... Show your love: Link to Blogcritics! var site="s11blogcritics" Home Song of the long road: Alexander Sokurov's Mother and Son Posted by John Lars Ericson on February 02, 2004 12:32 AM (See all posts by John Lars Ericson Filed under: Video Video: Art House Video: Foreign Language Scroll down to read comments on this story and/or add one of your own. Mother and Son DVD from Fox Lorber Release date: 19 December, 2000 Mother and Son ***** - a masterpiece Alexander Sokurov isn't referred to as "this generation's Tarkovsky" because he shares the same nationality as the late Russian master; the work of both may not be very thematically similar, but Sokurov's work is clearly a stylistic continuation where Tarkovsky left off. Sokurov's

37. Idéale Audience International : Alexander Sokurov Audiovisual production and program sales. Music Arts documentaries, Classic Archive DVD collection, documentaries by alexander sokurov, Johan van der http://www.ideale-audience.com/site/alexander_sokurov.220.0.html

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39. Chicago Reader Movie Review alexander sokurov s 218minute video, Confession, manages to elevate this theme to the level of art. Considered by many Russia s finest living director, http://www.chireader.com/movies/archives/2002/0802/020816_2.html

advertisement: Every Man for Himself Confession Directed by Alexander Sokurov Rating Masterpiece By Fred Camper Top Top I n one of my favorite jokes connecting Russian pessimism with a failure of imagination, two Russian fishermen catch a golden fish. It offers them three wishes if they'll spare its life. The first fisherman says, "I wish that the hold of the boat be filled with cases of vodka," and his wish is granted. The second says, "I wish that the entire ocean be turned into vodka," and they lower a bucket and start drinking. Then the fish reminds them that they have a third wish. They look at each other, scratch their heads, and the first says, "I guess we'll just take another case." Alexander Sokurov's 218-minute video, Confession , manages to elevate this theme to the level of art. Considered by many Russia's finest living director, he's created a madrigal to melancholy, a hymn to failure, in which an apparently gay naval commander lacks the courage to act on his desires. Set in the cramped space of a nondescript ship amid barren arctic snowscapes, it consists mostly of the sailors' repetitive actions and the commander's lugubrious narration. The few possibilities for happiness or meaning hinted at hardly offer convincing ways out of the gloom. Stan Brakhage includes a line from Louis Zukofsky's poem "A" "Raise grief to music" in his 1967 meditation on war, 23rd Psalm Branch . Sokurov may be said to have raised melancholy to music in

40. ALEXANDER SOKUROV's SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL IDENTITY IN "FATHER & SON" If there is one achievement alexander sokurov should be remembered for in (alexander sokurov, Film Comment) For example, Oriental Elegy begins with a http://www.cinemaseekers.com/Sokurov2.html

BUÑUEL PARADJANOV KUROSAWA BRESSON ... GODARD The Spiritual Worlds of Alexander Sokurov PART TWO: Sokurov's Search for Spiritual Identity in "We shouldn’t be afraid of difficult films, we shouldn’t be afraid not to be entertained. The viewer pays a high price for a film. And not in money. Viewers spend their time, a piece of their lives – an hour and a half to two hours. A bad film, an aggressive film, takes several centuries of life from humanity. (Alexander Sokurov) If there is one achievement Alexander Sokurov should be remembered for in the annals of great artistic accomplishments, it is his relentless striving to bring the world of the spirit closer to our own. With the exceptions of Tarkovsky and Bresson, there has never been a director who places such an emphasis on the spiritual qualities of harmony, subtlety and refinement in all aspects of the filmmaking process (and in life as well): Sputnik In a perfect world, of course, art (and the artist) would not be separated from spiritual life. They would ebb and flow together in a Light-conscious stream, uplifting the surrounding world as a natural matter of course. For art is life, and life is art. We are all part of the great Work of Creation, which is the sacred model for all Art. And as long as the pure flame of the spirit is firmly in command, this marvelous balance can be striven for, maybe even achieved. The moment, however, the spirit weakens, as is the case with most filmmakers today, then the inevitable maelstrom follows:

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