From a misty night into the dark exposition rooms of a museum to ponder philosophically at paintings by 'Pieter Jansz Saenredam' , 'Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers' , Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Andreas Schelfhout, Vincent van Gogh, Pieter Bruegel, Charles Henri Joseph Leickert.

Elegy of a Voyage (Elegiya dorogi) (2002)

Sokurov crosses vast landscapes, sails the high seas, and stumbles through congested cities to arrive at the doors of the empty Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam. Only then does he discover that the goal of his voyage was to bask in the power of "St. Mary’s Square," a beautiful landscape by Peter Saenredam

Hubert Robert, A Fortunate Life (Robert. Schastlivaya zhizn) (1996)

Sokurov meditates on the work of French romantic painter Hubert Robert, whose paintings of lost ruins evoke the same nostalgia and lyricism of Sokurov’s own films. With the ambience of tone poems, Sokurov’s two films serve as moody confessionals of the director’s personal style and peculiar