The Long Take and its Prototypes
https://doi.org/10.69975/2074-0832-2025-64-2-147-157
Abstract
The article considers possible ways of describing the genesis of the form and function of the long take through the preceding experience of working with duration in static images and other media. The long take becomes a form that accumulates the strategies developed for static images: multiple layers, stretching and compressing time and space, contemplative practices, dramaturgy of viewing, and so on, all of which is combined with the expressive potential of the “duration” of the moving image, thus achieving various aesthetic results — intensification of dramatic effect or, on the contrary, complete de-dramatization.
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About the Author
M. S. Bavykina
S.A. Gerasimov Russian Federation State University of Cinematography (VGIK)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Maria S. Bavykina - Cand. Sci. degree seeker (in Art History), S.A. Gerasimov Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK).
3 Wilhelm Pieck Str., Moscow, 129226
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Bavykina M.S. The Long Take and its Prototypes. Vestnik VGIK. 2025;17(2(64)):147-157. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.69975/2074-0832-2025-64-2-147-157
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