Ikon (IP)

You made your films:

outside the norms.

Did they still exist,

when no-one saw them?

Give us this day

“Our Honest Bread”:

you must make

realist authenticity.

But no, you give us

this “Brief Encounters”:

no suburban station,

just a utilitarian platform

in a one-commissar town.

Like an auteur your output

is intermittent,

through your own

- and none other’s - fault.

Among Grey Stones

there are apparatchik

“interpolations”:

you credit Ivan Sidarov.

Restructuring!

Openness!

We love our words,

our slogans,

our posters

with the heroic

perspective.

You make “The Tuner”:

more personal deceptions,

a metaphor for the state

and its citizen victims.

You made your films:

outside the norms.

Now, they do exist,

for we have seen them.

*Kira Muratova (Romanian/Moldovan/Ukranian Film-maker)

 http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/muratova/