“Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.”
ANDREI TARKOVSKY 4 Apr 1932 - 29 Dec 1986
“I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not to be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone, as it seems to me, is in danger.”
ABOUT ANDREI TARKOVSKY
Andrei Tarkovsky was a Russian filmmaker, writer, and film theorist. He is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in the history of Russian cinema. His films explored spiritual and metaphysical themes, and are noted for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery, and preoccupation with nature and memory.
Tarkovsky was the recipient of several awards at the Cannes Film Festival throughout his career (including the FIPRESCI prize, the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, and the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury) and winner of the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival for his debut film Ivan's Childhood. In 1990, he was posthumously awarded the Soviet Union's prestigious Lenin Prize. Three of his films—Andrei Rublev, Mirror, and Stalker—featured in Sight & Sound's 2012 poll of the 50 greatest films of all time.
WHAT WAS HIS PURPOSE TO CREATE FILM AND DIRECT?
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM HIS TECHNIQUES?
Eternal questions of existence manifest in perpetuity, in art. The questions ultimately do not change over time, but the reality of existence does change. Nearly half a century since its release, Andrei Tarkovsky’s SOLARIS posts fundamental questions still current about man’s dominance over nature, the very nature of nature, and what defines being human. When we connect this to today’s situation of CO-VID 19 we realise that human can not dominate over nature but has to learn to live in harmony with it.
From the sets of Stalker
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Video Credits:
Video 1: CinemaTyler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=188&v=WDv9r6knP_M&feature=emb_logo
Video 2: Like Stories of Old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=291&v=gNezdOlS-aw&feature=emb_logo
Video 3: Canon of Design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=346&v=zyxIp9G0a4I&feature=emb_logo