Nature, illusion and excess in Sokurov's Mother and Son

Author: Alaniz, Jos

Source: Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema, Volume 2, Number 2, May 2008 , pp. 183-204(22)

Publisher: Intellect

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Abstract:

Aleksandr Sokurov's Mother and Son (1997) presents a highly allusive pictorialized vision of landscape, one highly derivative of the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. But the film's denaturalizing of nature goes even further than this, mobilizing peripheral space, chance, soundtrack/picture disjunction and cinematic excess all traces of the Sokurovian unconscious, a puckish counter-text working to subvert the work's received elegiac mood.

Keywords: Russian cinema; Sokurov; death; excess; nature; C.D. Friedrich

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/srsc.2.2.183_1

Affiliations: 1: University of Washington, Seattle.

Publication date: 2008-05-19

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Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema focuses on pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post- Soviet film, its aesthetic development, and its position between ideology and industry. SRSC invites contributions that constitute original research. The journal seeks to promote research from established scholars as well as to encourage researchers new to the field.
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