THE MOTIF OF DREAM AS AN ARTISTIC TECHNIQUE IN THE YAKUT DOCUMENTARY FILM 24 SNOW

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the study of the language of documentary cinema. The process of film language research is an urgent, but difficult task, since it involves a combination of a wide variety of elements – from concept and verbal speech to expressive structural elements, the semantics of an episode and a shot. The purpose of the investigation is to reveal the functioning of the artistic technique in a documentary film. In the course of the research, the multifunctional character of the motif of dream in the author’s film is revealed. Taking the motif of dream as the basis of the film plot, the director reveals such a social problem in the North as the preservation of the traditional culture of peoples. The motif of dream makes it possible to realize such an approach as the character’s self-reflection, which in this film is pre- sented in retrospection, introspection and prospection. The film demonstrates the connection between dream and the winter season, as well as the fog as a natural phenomenon. It is found that the semantics of the protagonist’s dream is revealed with the help of such expressive means as a shot, speech, sound and color.