Brotherly love, national values, and home - time has a funny way of sweeping them all away without discrimination. In an act of preserving fire, Andrei Tarkovsky's 1983 religious drama questions the ethics of returning to the past and bearing silent witness to the future, as collapses reality and surreality, man and woman, sane and insane, mortal and myth into spiritual equilibrium. By blurring these boundaries, what occurs in this late but absolutely seminal work is a striking dialogue on slippage between nation states, as well as the inherent untranslatability of art. Embark upon a journey through the mist with your hosts as they say their piece on separating art from artists, the power of autobiography, the chambering of time within celluloid, and the proximity of mankind to God!
Étienne Balibar's Article - "What is a border?"
Brotherly love, national values, and home - time has a funny way of sweeping them all away without discrimination. In an act of preserving fire, Andrei Tarkovsky's 1983 religious drama questions the ethics of returning to the past and bearing silent witness to the future, as collapses reality and surreality, man and woman, sane and insane, mortal and myth into spiritual equilibrium. By blurring these boundaries, what occurs in this late but absolutely seminal work is a striking dialogue on slippage between nation states, as well as the inherent untranslatability of art. Embark upon a journey through the mist with your hosts as they say their piece on separating art from artists, the power of autobiography, the chambering of time within celluloid, and the proximity of mankind to God!
Étienne Balibar's Article - "What is a border?"