简介：历史上第一部关于苏联社会主义劳改营的纪录片，感觉就像后来的纳粹集中营一样恐怖。。。 Cinema,Camp,Biopolitics:Solovki(1928)–ASpecialPurpose'Kulturfilm'.InmypaperIwillfocusonasocalledKulturfilm,producedintheSovietUnionin1928,"Solovki–SolovetskyLager'OsobogoNaznacheniya(SLON)"("Solovki–SolovetskySpecialPurposeCamp")byA.A.Cherkasov.Exceptforsomenewsreel-issuesthisfilm–untiltoday–canberegardedastheonlycinematographicdocumentarysourceaboutthenotorious"correctivelabourcamp",whichin1926hadbeenturnedintoaprison.PartsofitareusedasarchivalmaterialinMarinaGoldovskaya's"Vlast'Solovetskaya"("SolovetskyPower",1988)sixtyyearslater,illustratingthepost-communistattempttoenlightencertaintabooedtopicsandtraumaticaspectsofSoviethistory.WhereasGoldovskaya'scinematicnarrationofhistorycomplementsthetextualandphotographicapproachesbyherconsultantYuriBrodsky,who,reconstructingthesystemoftheGULAGhadgraduallybecomeitsvoluntaryinmate,Cherkasov'sSolovkiisagenuinepartofthebiopoliticalprojectoftheSovietstate. ShotduringthefirstheightofthepropagandisticencodingofearlySoviet'non-fiction'film,Solovkicanbeunderstoodasanexperimentwithinanexperiment,sincecinemaaswellasthecamphadbecomebiopoliticalinstitutionsshapingthenewman.Morethananyotherkul'turfil'minthe1920s(andherebycomparablewithKurtGerron'sTheresienstadtfilmaswellaswithMaksimGorky'sfavourablewrittenaccountofhisofficialtriptoSolovki),theambivalentinsightintocamp-lifedeliveredbyCherkasov's'SpecialPurposeExpeditionFilm',showingthe"ideal"treatmentoftheprisoners,putsthe"documentary"statusofvisualhistoryintoquestion.…