Andrei Tarkovsky

"I am radically opposed to the way [Sergei] Eisenstein used the frame to codify intellectual formulae. My own method of conveying experience to the audience is quite different... Eisenstein makes thought into a despot: it leaves no "air," nothing of that unspoken elusiveness which is perhaps the most captivating quality of all art..."
—Andrei Tarkovsky

scene from Solaris, 1972

 

scene from Nostalghia, 1983

link to essay on Nostalghia, and ideas of Bergson and Deleuze
"...the film is structured around the protagonist’s internal and immeasurable personal time. This oneiric structure creates a continual sense of temporal instability throughout the film that is exemplified through smooth, seamless transitions between the protagonist’s different states of consciousness and temporality. Most importantly, Tarkovsky employs a long-take aesthetic to express constant durational shifts between the “exterior” world and Gorchakov’s “inner” world." –Michael Vesia, "Transcendental Images of Time and Memory"

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