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CINECRI'15 (Dakam), İstanbul, Turkey, 10 - 12 June 2015, pp.559-569, (Full Text)
A. Sokurov’s movie Alexandra and N. Mikhalkov’s 12 generate the main material of this proceeding. This material is studied according to power and its position against identity or subject and is compared from the aspect of subjugation and subjection relation. The aim is to find out and discuss reasons of difference of the way that directors comment the same problem, the question of Chechnya, in the same period of time.
Both visual texts choose for themselves as a theme the same problem. However, the position of the texts is dissociated. As the problem is represented by an individual in 12, in Alexandra the same problem is showed by the place. The identity, which is marginalized because of the problem, stays in different places in these films. With the analyze of these visual texts the subject is determined and identified, in which text belongs to others, or to its own identity.
In this proceeding, it’s discussed that focusing on an individual to study a problem, as it’s done in 12, can make viewer misread the text. On the other hand, the role of place in Aleksandra is discussed as a way of prevent of this misreading. This provides to clear the difference between positions of directors on replacing the subject according to the power.