Russian Art, Russian Ark Film, Buttner Interview

Travel to the past or travel to the future?


Russian Art, Russian Ark Film, Buttner Interview
- Johnson's Russia List 6-17-03



......Cineaste: I think the marquis is the chief provocateur. For example, at one point the marquis notices how well musicians are playing and affirms that they can't be Russian. The narrator quietly corrects him; yes they are Russian, he says.

Buttner: Sometimes the narrator doesn't take the marquis seriously. And the marquis gets very picky at times. The narrator seems to be saying, in answer to the provocations of the marquis, that what we - the filmmakers - are doing is significant now and for the future, and it is Russian art.

αντικαταστήσετε "Russian" με "Greek"......