ESENCIA, ESTÉTICA Y TÉCNICA EN EL CINE DE SOKÚROV

 In this article we refer to the figure of the Russian filmmaker Aleksandr N. Sokurov, one of the most important and influential directors of our time at the international level. Based on a conversation we had with Sokurov at Lenfilm in St. Petersburg (Russian Federation), the article considers philosophical and aesthetic concepts of his artistic proposal in relation to some specific and precise examples of his work. Different conceptual, formal and technical elements of Aleksandr Sokúrov's artistic universe are treated: the metaphysical idea of ​​human existence that he expresses in his films; his formal innovations, both in the flattening of the image and in the format of the frame; his conception of cinematographic language as, mainly, a plastic language; his search for the pure language of cinematographic art; his idea of ​​the impossibility of separating documentary from fiction; his conception of the role of art in society, etc. The text is organized in the form of dialogue through the following main themes: image and tradition, the idea of fiction and literature, and the role of man in History.