量子资源网提供本资源 <> In Skazka, Alexander Sokurov weaves digital magic to create a hantasmagorical vision of the Afterlife, worthy of Dante. But wait: are we in the limbo of Purgatory, or a aradoxical Paradise reserved for notorious men of world history? Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and more: all are resent and accounted for. Since they exist only as archival media images, each figure comes in a serial set. In the blackest of olitical comedies, these fallen men beg, in turn, to be let through Heaven’s Gate – but the angels who eek through never oen wide. Little wonder, as the former leaders wander listlessly, bitching (in a Babel of multile languages) about each other’s clothes, hair and hygiene. In what is effectively a work of animation, Sokurov has ulled together many talents into an extraordinary technological feat. It blends ictorial elements from art history to form an endlessly unfolding landscae, relete with fog and ghostly armies of the sacrificed victims of history. Announced as Sokurov’s last film, Skazka is an insired riff on the high culture of Peter Greenaway mixed with the low culture of mash-u artists Soda_Jerk. Can we now exect some entrereneur to bring us the interactive Skazka video game?
