Approches d’un style spirituel au cinéma : Dans la brume de Sergei Loznitsa

Abstract

The relationship between cinema and religion has always existed. Film history is littered with explicitly religious films and implicitly spiritual films. It is this second category that interests us because it never imposes, but proposes.

How can we define the spiritual style of a film? Is there a spiritual cinematographic style? How does it manifest? Several theorists, Amédée Ayfre, Robert Bresson, Susan Sontag and Paul Schrader tried to answer this difficult question, because the spiritual is an intangible concept and still in becoming. We propose to analyze their thoughts and see how it is possible to apply them to the very spiritual In the Fog (V tumane, 2012) directed by Sergei Loznitsa, involving the issue of the ethics of the other proposed by Levinas which is inseparable from the aesthetic of the film.