PROFESSIONAL DOCUMENTARY AND AMATEUR VIDEOS ABOUT BAD ROADS OF THE RUSSIAN NORTH IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE / ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОЕ ДОКУМЕНТАЛЬНОЕ КИНО И «НАРОДНОЕ» ВИДЕО О БЕЗДОРОЖЬЕ СЕВЕРА В КОНТЕКСТЕ КУЛЬТУРНОГО ЛАНДШАФТА

• Published in: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF TELEVISION
• Main Author: LAVRENOVA OLGA A. / ЛАВРЕНОВА О.А.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: GITR Film & Television School 2020
• Subjects: cultural landscape; north; roads; documentary filmmaking; youtube; культурный ландшафт; север; дороги; кинодокументалистика; Visual arts; N1-9211; Russian North
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.30628/1994-9529-2020-16.2-129-158; https://doaj.org/article/f844524f08e44db0889c96bd8f71e780

In the context of diverse studies of the cultural landscape, one of the important topics is the analysis of images of movement and traveling across spaces. Northern latitudes exacerbate this problem, and visual images become a vivid component of local socio-cultural practices and of ideas about these lands, shaped as a result of viewing documentary videos. Documentary has various levels, from spontaneous filming to professional non-fiction films. YouTube video hosting represents all of these levels. When included in some other, noncinema discourse, they become part of a holistic picture of reality, allowing a deeper understanding of many of its aspects. In this case—as part of the cultural landscapes of high latitudes, and more specifically—as a marker of the idea of movement, conquest, traveling through space. Professional documentary about the life of the indigenous peoples of the North includes such topics as migration, everyday traffic practices using traditional animal-drawn transport. The amateur videos dedicated to roads are shot on GoPro, DVRs, smartphones and mainly capture the challenges that drivers of heavy machinery face when struggling to get through mud and melted ice road. This is another plane of the cultural landscapes of the North, another culture, forming its own pattern of paths. These two cultures exist almost in parallel, but sometimes they intersect, creating points and zones of tension. В контексте разноплановых исследований культурного ландшафта одной из важных тем является анализ образов движения и преодоления пространства. Северные широты обостряют эту проблему, и визуальные образы становятся яркой составляющей местных социокультурных практик, а также представлений об этих краях, формирующихся как результат просмотра документальных лент и роликов. Документальное кино имеет разные уровни, от спонтанных съемок до профессиональных неигровых фильмов. Все уровни сейчас достаточно полно представлены на видеохостинге YouTube. Если их включить в иной, не киноведческий, дискурс, они становятся ...