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Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer (2019): a poetic documentary by Tarkovsky's son Andrei A. Tarkovsky.

English Programme Booklet for The Sacrifice" (Press release). Swedish Film Institute. Archived from the original on 8 August 2007 . Retrieved 14 January 2008. In 2007 Jeremy Millar explored aspects of Stalker at an installation Time-Mirror on the Isle of Grain off the Kent coast (see Brian Dillon, ‘Making the Ruins Speak’, Sight and Sound, October 2007, p.8). See also the archive of Millar’s work at: http://www.jeremymillar.org

The position which I am suggesting for Tarkovsky’s films in the history of the cinema is akin to that held by Man Ray’s Rayographs in the history of photography. In Paris in 1921 Man Ray happened upon the simple technique of laying objects on top of photo-sensitive paper beneath an intense light-source: ‘I remembered when I was a boy, placing fern leaves in a printing frame with proof paper, exposing it to sunlight, and obtaining a white negative of the leaves. This was the same idea, but with an added three-dimensional quality and tone graduation.’ 18 This life-long effort culminated in Marker’s CD-ROM Immemory, which is divided into Tarkovskian ‘zones’ navigated by the computer operator ‘without pretexts or rationales’. 25 http://magazine.photoluxfestival.it/en/time-and-memory-in-andrei-tarkovskys-photography (Status 11 July 2023) insisting instead on the material icon as an artefact of mediation. While Godard insists on regarding even this icon – the Orthodox equivalent of Veronica’s veil – as a projection, Tarkovsky is more concerned with the way that, as imprint, it silently represents only the possibility of representation, rendering its own material basis as medium. In its very refusal to mediate it promises the possibility of mediation.

Jen Yamato (16 March 2009). "Five Favorite Films with Alex Proyas". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango . Retrieved 30 August 2021. Hansen argues that, by withholding representation and rendering the spectator’s body as the compositional centre, recent video art redefines the image, which ‘now demarcates the very process through which the body […] gives form or in-forms information’. 39F ocusing on Key Themes: Economy in storytelling is also about ensuring that the central themes and messages of the story are clear and not diluted by too many diverging ideas or motifs. Blasco, Gonzalo (10 November 2003). "An Interview with Marina Tarkovskaia and Alexander Gordon". andreitarkovski.org. Archived from the original on 7 March 2018 . Retrieved 14 October 2021. Bright, bright day. Tarkovsky Foundation and White Space Gallery, 2008. A book of Polaroids edited by Stephen Gill. ISBN 978-0955739415. Edition of 3000 copies. During his third year at the VGIK, Tarkovsky met Andrei Konchalovsky. They found much in common as they liked the same film directors and shared ideas on cinema and films. In 1959, they wrote the script Antarctica – Distant Country, which was later published in the Moskovsky Komsomolets. Tarkovsky submitted the script to Lenfilm, but it was rejected. They were more successful with the script The Steamroller and the Violin, which they sold to Mosfilm. This became Tarkovsky's graduation project, earning him his diploma in 1960 and winning First Prize at the New York Student Film Festival in 1961. Tarkovsky incorporated levitation scenes into several of his films, most notably Solaris. To him these scenes possess great power and are used for their photogenic value and magical inexplicability. [39] Water, clouds, and reflections were used by him for their surreal beauty and photogenic value, as well as their symbolism, such as waves or the forms of brooks or running water. [40] Bells and candles are also frequent symbols. These are symbols of film, sight and sound, and Tarkovsky's film frequently has themes of self-reflection. [41]

Gianvito, John (2006). Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-220-1. The Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman was quoted as saying: "Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [of us all], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream". [61] Andrei Plakhov "ТАРКОВСКИЙ". Archived from the original on 31 October 2021 . Retrieved 10 October 2018. // Большая российская энциклопедия. Том 31. Москва, 2016, с. 674. Robert Kelly, ‘Notes on Brakhage’, Chicago Review 47/4 and 48/1, Winter 2001 and Spring 2002, p.170.a b Pleshakova, Anastasia (4 April 2007). "Тарковский был "разрешенным контрреволюционером" "[Tarkovsky was "a legal сounterrevolutionary"]. Komsomolskaya Pravda. Archived from the original on 4 January 2008 . Retrieved 27 November 2007. The Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke voted for Mirror on his top 10 films in the 2002 Sight & Sound directors' poll [65] [66] and later said that he has seen the picture at least 25 times. [67] [68] Catherine Lupton (2005). Chris Marker - Memories of the Future. Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781861892232. Under the influence of Glasnost and Perestroika, Tarkovsky was finally recognized in the Soviet Union in the Autumn of 1986, shortly before his death, by a retrospective of his films in Moscow. After his death, an entire issue of the film magazine Iskusstvo Kino was devoted to Tarkovsky. In their obituaries, the film committee of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union and the Union of Soviet Film Makers expressed their sorrow that Tarkovsky had to spend the last years of his life in exile. [53]

Moreover, the change from projection to installation has, if anything only increased the attention paid to the time-form. It has also been a result of narrative experimentation. As the curator Susanne Gaensheimer writes, if ‘the readability of the film’s narrative is eliminated, making an interpretation in the traditional sense impossible, then its semiotic structure is altered to new, different meaning constructs’. 32 The Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski commented that: "Andrei Tarkovsky was one of the greatest directors of recent years," [62] and regarded Tarkovsky's film Ivan's Childhood as an influence on his own work. [63] In essence, economy in storytelling is about making every word, scene, and character count. It's a skill that involves careful planning, editing, and a deep understanding of what is essential to the story's core message and emotional impact.

Streamlining Plot: This involves focusing on essential plot points that drive the story forward. Subplots that don't contribute to the central narrative or theme are often minimized or eliminated.