This trip to the museum is the culmination of decades of experimentation.
The Big Picture Filming a long, complicated scene in a single take isn’t a task most directors are up to. After all, it can take hours or even days of rehearsing just to get ten unedited minutes of screen time right. Getting a whole feature-length movie done in just one shot, if one can even imagine such a feat, is even harder. But, even though most films allegedly shot in one take are actually edited to achieve that look, there are still some filmmakers that have managed to make it.
‘Russian Ark’s One Long Take Works As a Trip to the Museum Shot entirely inside the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg, known for being the ancient winter palace of the Russian czars, Russian Ark is a trip through the history of both a building and an entire country. The movie is shot as if from the first-person point of view of a mysterious character, played by Sokurov himself, who is displaced in time after an unexplained accident.
‘Russian Ark’ Took Four Years To Develop, but Was Shot in Just One Day It is a beautiful vision that is well-accomplished by the single-take, first-person approach, that all but places the viewers inside the movie. Achieving this result, as one most likely imagines, was not at all easy.
Which Movies Paved the Way to ‘Russian Ark’? Perhaps Meurer should’ve taken a clue from the fact that the feat Sokurov was trying to achieve had never been done before. Not only is coordinating entire crews and groups of actors to work in an almost clockwork manner for an hour and a half unimaginably difficult, there are also physical barriers to shooting an entire movie in one take. Said barriers were even higher in 2002, when digital filmmaking was just taking its first few steps.
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