Multiple responses re Query: ruckenfigur in cinema

From: Silke Panse [[email protected]] 
	
Hi Bill,

I wrote an article about Alexandr Sokurov's Rückenfigur in 'Elegy of a Voyage' (Third Text, No. 87, Vol.20, Issue 1, January 2006).

Hope this helps,

Silke 

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Dr. Silke Panse
Lecturer 0.5 (Film and Video) 
Fine Art Critical and Contextual Studies
University for the Creative Arts
New Dover Road
Canterbury
Kent CT1 3AN

Visiting Associate Lecturer (Film and Video)
Fine Art Theory
Chelsea College of Art and Design
London 6W1P 4JU
United Kingdom
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From: Amy Heller [[email protected]] 
	
I find that this composition is not uncommon. For instance in the films:

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (Ang Lee) http://arthistory327.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/brokeback-mountain-and-the-pastoral-trope/
 (this blog juxtaposes the still with a landscape painting)

BADLANDS (Terrence Malick) http://randommovieclub.blogspot.com/2009/01/badlands.html?m=1

THE MIRROR (Andrei Tarkovsky) http://twi-ny.com/blog/2012/03/09/geoff-dyer-on-tarkovsky-cinema-and-life-the-mirror/

RED DESERT (Michelangelo Antonioni) http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/tuesday-morning-foreign-region-dvd-red-desert-antonioni-1964-blu-ray-edition

SUNRISE (F.W. Murnau) http://screeninsight.blogspot.com/2012/10/sunrise-song-of-two-human-fw-murnau-1927.html?m=1
(Scroll down to image of O'Brien and Gaynor facing away from the camera)

THE LONELIEST PLANT (Julia Loktev) 
Sent from my iPadhttp://mubi.com/notebook/posts/toronto-2011-julia-loktevs-the-loneliest-planet

And I would note, that as a film distributor, I am aware that many frame grabs of this kind of landscape may not
be online because generally we think these do not sell films effectively.

Yours,

Amy Heller
Milestone Films

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From: Felicity Gee [[email protected]] 
	
Dear Dominik,

The most obvious example that I can think of is Bruno Dumont's Hors Satan
which explores the main character's experience of the sublime through
repeated scenes in which he is kneeling, back turned to the camera.

I would agree that this also features in contemplation of both country and
city panoramas in the films of F.W Murnau.

Best Regards

Felicity Gee
Royal Holloway, University of London

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