The Damnation of the Sight. The Point of View in Three Movies by Béla Tarr

The paper focuses on Satantango (Sátántangó, 1994), Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister Harmóniák, 2000) and The Man From London (A londoni férfi, 2007), particularly on the manner in which the key notion at the core of Tarr’s universe finds a development within those films: the relation between th...

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Published inActa Universitatis Sapientiae. Film and Media Studies no. 4; pp. 101 - 113
Main Author Grosoli , Marco
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Scientia Publishing House 2011
Scientia Kiadó
Subjects
Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Béla Tarr
visual excess
narrative
point of view
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Summary:The paper focuses on Satantango (Sátántangó, 1994), Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister Harmóniák, 2000) and The Man From London (A londoni férfi, 2007), particularly on the manner in which the key notion at the core of Tarr’s universe finds a development within those films: the relation between the narrative and its (“entropic,” so to speak) excess. Notably, the Point Of View proves to be the ultimate device through which something like a spatial form structuring the aforementioned relation can be shaped.
ISSN:2065-5924
2066-7779