The first award of the Film Festival VOICES was handed out long before reviewing the results of the competition. This year for the first time an “Unlimited Talent” prize is taking place and it will continue being awarded to the best of the best, who don’t know any limits – neither in talent, nor in professionalism.
Igor Lysenko, director of the Festival, noted that awarding Sokurov with the prize is “an amazing event, not alike any other VOICES’ event, because we are having a guest who is not alike any other guest”.
The prize was awarded by Paolo Taviani, who wished Alexander Sokurov good luck with his new film “Faust”.
Sokurov, who came up on stage, was met with a storm of applause. Having thanked the orchestrators of the Festival, local administration, the director spoke about the film, that he has chosen for such a case on himself – “Russian Ark”: “Since that very moment when cinema was born, directors have been dreaming about managing the time-material of the cinema. How to make a film in one breath? How to award the audience with the opportunity of being free in comprehending, without imposing upon them your point of view using editing, cutting, splice? That’s what I tried to achieve in this film – on 24th of December at 12 o’clock we turned on the camera and a huge film cast (more than 1000 actors) came into motion. In one hour and 28 minutes the camera was turned off. A free cinematographic space was born. It is called “Russian Ark”.
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