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Hailed as a masterpiece and a breakthrough in digital cinema, this single-take, feature length film is set in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Throughout the piece, Sukurov uses a narrator to guide the viewer through the Hermitage past innumerable grand works, whilst also presenting history through a series of characters that appear to drift across the camera space, almost incidentally rather than deliberately. Elaborate costumes, sumptuous works of art and the ambitious scale make this a unique non-linear cinematic experience. In Russian with English subtitles. Also available on VHS [318954].
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
319009
Languages
English
French
Russian
Russian
Audience classification
G
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Digital cinematography
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - History
Crafts & Visual Arts → Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Experimental → Experimental films - Soviet Union
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
DVD; Access Print (Section 1)