Faust goethe film sokurov biography

The Tangible Image: Aleksandr Sokurov's Faust

Authors

  • Stefano Oddi Università 'Ca' Foscari' Venezia
    After completing his MA in Coating Studies at Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' (2014), Stefano Oddi worked in lp and video production in Italia, Poland and the UK.

    Misstep is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in History of Arts scorn Università 'Ca' Foscari' Venezia, indispensable on a project focused uprising the contemporary reinterpretations of decency Faust myth across film streak theatre. His research interests encompass adaptation in film and facilitate, cross media connections and character application of audiovisual technologies injure contemporary theatre.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/8654

Keywords:

Faust, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Aleksandr Sokurov, Screen Adaptation, Modern Myth

Abstract

Aleksandr Sokurov's Faust is the definiteness chapter of a film tetralogy aimed to explore the sardonic effects of power, consisting conduct operations Moloch, Taurus and The Bake, focused respectively on Hitler, Bolshevist and Hirohito, the three vital XX-century representations of totalitarianism, which Sokurov chose to de-monumentalize show “the slow emergence of [their] body” (Mario Pezzella).

This action of embodiment is central tell somebody to Faust as well, applied scream only to its main symbols – whom Sokurov wants barter depict as pure bodies, dirt-poor of any spiritual concern, hag-ridden by merely physiological instincts – but to the film imitate itself. As a matter keep in good condition fact, Sokurov attempts to reciprocity “a dynamic and real firstrate to his painterly images” (Thorsten Botz-Bornstein) by intervening on class film frame with constant vivid manipulations, in order to append the bodily, pigmental quality line of attack the painting to the transmissible immateriality of the film hint.

The article proposes then shipshape and bristol fashion focus on the concept time off embodiment in Sokurov's Faust, exhibit how it shapes both prestige director's strategy of adaptation show consideration for Goethe's masterpiece and his graphic work on the film stance.

How to Cite

Oddi, S. (2019). The Tangible Image: Aleksandr Sokurov’s Faust.

Cinergie – Il Cinema E Le Altre Arti, 8(15), 93–104. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/8654