PROBLEMS OF SYNCHRONIZING REALITY
WITH ITS ARTISTIC EXPRESSION ON THE SCREEN Cover Image

PROBLEMELE SINCRONIZĂRII REALITĂȚII CU EXPRESIA EI ARTISTICĂ PE ECRAN
PROBLEMS OF SYNCHRONIZING REALITY WITH ITS ARTISTIC EXPRESSION ON THE SCREEN

Author(s): ION USATÂI
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Academia de Muzică, Teatru și Arte Plastice
Keywords: historical-biographical film; poetic language; cinematic language; docufiction; pluriperspectivism; Moldova Film; aesthetics of the cinematographic image;

Summary/Abstract: The term Potemkiniadada (from Russian – потёмкинские деревни),appeared in the 18th century, it refers to a method of falsifying reality through beautifying, which comes from the name of Grigori Potemkin, Russian General, state dignitary and favorite of Catherine II of Russia. In the history of Bessarabian cinema we frequently encounter such a „phenomenon“, as in the socialist period, when all the films made at the ” Moldova Film” had to correspond to a single ideology: the so-called „lakirovka“ - the actual reality was hidden or modified on the screen. All that was shown and found to be real in the films of this period were images adorned with beautiful and hardworking people, clean villages, rich fields with many workers etc. In the film „Between Lying and Truth“ ( master’s film of the student Ion Usatâi) we talk in detail about this period.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 2(35)
  • Page Range: 108-111
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Romanian