Ką pasakė tabakininkas iš Tabako gatvės? Didingumo žalojimas paskutiniajame Aleksejaus Germano kūrinyje
What did the Tobacconist on Tobacco Street say? The Mutilation of Sublime in the Last Work of Aleksey German

Summary/Abstract: Aleksey German’s last film, “Hard to be a god”, is marked by the excess of the body, the overwhelming visualization of mutilation of senses and the abundance of other elements that create the effect of ontological reality. Yet the representa- tion of the body itself follows a strict logic of correspondence between words and presence, images and matter, and subject and narrative. This article departs from the usual pattern of studies in the philosophy of film that tend to draw heavily on concepts such as embodiment and the Deleuzian notion of affect. Instead, it at- tempts to delineate the valence of the bodily excess in the genealogy of aesthetics, as set out by Jacques Rancière in his critique of the concepts of nonrepresentability and the sublime. Thus, the article paratacticaly engages, inter alia, fragments of Aleksey German’s script, his film’s images, as well as descriptions of the Lisbon earthquake and Imanuel Kant’s evocations of the sublime. It does so in order to inscribe, rather than demonstrate, the political consequences of the representation of bodily excess, and to insist on, rather than explicate, the singular events creating a bodily aesthesis.

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