Motivation for this film was the invitation by the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum to Sokurov to look at a work of art from the collection like a nightwatchman in a deserted museum. In addition to Breughel’s painting ‘The Tower of Babel’, Sokurov also examines many other historic paintings. The video starts as a road movie and follows the trail from Russia to Rotterdam. Visual poetry and philosophical meditations ensure a very special pictorial experience. Also to be seen on a plasma screen in the museum.
Film details
- Countries of production
- France, Netherlands, Russia
- Year
- 2001
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2002
- Length
- 47"
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
You may also like this
-
L’Anglaise et le Duc
A subjective view of the French Revolution based on the diaries of an English lady. By French New Wave director Éric Rohmer.
-
Motion for Stockhausen
The physical movements of hysterical patients are carefully reframed in a dignifying way.
-
Metropolen des Leichtsinns
A devilish deconstruction of our pre-programmed post-war lives as Western consumers.