I was attracted by this sentence and came to watch it.
"Aleksandr Sokonov's 2002 work "Russian Ark" can be called a very extreme experimental film. The whole film is 90 minutes and only has one shot. "
One shot really makes people daydream. After watching it, it should be almost the same. Is it one, maybe two? three? Very little anyway. One of the aesthetic properties of long takes is their unquestionable authenticity, so the story is designed to travel through time.
Let's read some background information about the film.
850 actors, spanning four centuries of history, 35 palaces and rooms, three symphony orchestras, seven months of rehearsal, one shot. The museum only gave the crew two days, so forty electricians spent twenty-six hours lighting the thirty-five rooms, and then German photographer Tilmann Butner carried the lights for over ninety minutes. A high-definition Sony digital camera weighing more than 30 kilograms completed all the shooting in one go.
Showcasing displays in various rooms of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, and simulates Peter the Great whipping his generals furiously, the personal life of Empress Catherine, the Last Supper of the last tsar's family on the eve of the Revolution, and the last splendor of 1913 The Royal Ball.
Hugo once said: Architecture is history. The palaces of St. Petersburg are witnesses of history and symbols of Russian national culture. So the unquestionable authenticity of the long shot is really exploited.
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