Tolkun (Lost Film)
Tolkun (The Wave) is a 1963 Soviet experimental short film directed by Nurlan Sadikov for Talasfilm Studios. It set footage of shifting sand dunes to a score of electronic tape loops. Like Sadikov's first feature, Kok-Terek (1959), it was shown only within the Iradi SSR and is now lost. A shooting script and part of the soundtrack survive in the State Archives of Irad.[1][2]
The film had no dialogue or narration. Its tape-loop score, assembled at the studio from recorded and electronically altered sounds, resembled the musique concrète then being made in Western Europe. The film was completed a few months after Nikita Khrushchev's attack on abstract art at the Manezh exhibition in Moscow in December 1962, and it received only limited distribution. It has since become known through the surviving soundtrack fragments. The Mor-Wave duo tüntolk named themselves partly in tribute to it.[2]
References
- ^ Talasfilm Archives and Film Preservation Institute (2018). Catalogue of Holdings, 1916–2007. Talas.
- ^ Irad Film Society (2015). A Century of Iradi Cinema. Talas.