Anna Dimitri, The spectator gaze. Notes about Andrej Tarkosvkij’s cinema

 

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) is the major director who emerges from the Soviet Union after the war. He was the most important film-maker after those of the previous decade such as Bergman, Antonioni, Bresson and Godard.
This essay examines how and why he was able to create his own taste which can be clearly identified as “Tarkovsky’s cinema”. He introduced the concept that film-making is a high poetic calling. Its task is to contribute to spiritual well-being of man. From this main concept he derives also his idea about the training of actors and the meaning of “ image” as expression of “truth”.

 

Published on: Poetics of gesture, N. 19 New Series – Year X 2014