Sátántangó och Passion: varaktighet i realistisk och allegorisk gestaltning

Abstract

This essay proposes and examines a coalition between the Deleuzian notion of time-images and two different cinematographic traits: realism and symbolic or allegoric content. The material in question are the films by directors Béla Tarr and György Fehér, whose cinematic qualities are compared to those of Miklós Jancsó and Andrei Tarkovsky. Whilst Tarr and Fehér combine the realistically mundane with a construction of time, Jancsó and Tarkovsky dwelve in allegoric and symbolic imagery which tends a similar construction. The difference is contained within the depiction of realism or allegorism in relation to the duration imbedded in the film.