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Andrei Tarkovsky

“What I am trying to do in it is tear apart the way we look at the present day, and turn to the past, during which mankind made so many mistakes that today we are obliged to live in a kind of fog.”

—Andrei Tarkovsky on Stalker in Time Within Time; tr. Kitty Hunter-Blair.

Nostalghia (1983)

dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

''Happy is not the right word. This world is not a place where we can be happy. It wasn’t created for man’s happiness, though many believe this is the reason of our existence. I think we are here to fight, so that good and evil can clash within us, and good may prevail, thus enriching us spiritually. It’s difficult to say whether we are happy or not: it doesn’t depend on us… There are times when one regrets being born, but life also gives us surprising things that, alone, are worth living. The issue of happiness doesn’t exist for me: happiness as such doesn’t exist.''

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stalker ‘Сталкер’ 1979, Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky

Mirror 1975 by Andrei Tarkovsky

Was it a meteorite or a visitation from outer space? Whatever it was, in our small country, there appeared a miracle—the Zone.

Some more drawing practice featuring the stalker from Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker 🚪

Andrei Tarkovsky, Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

Ivan's Childhood (1962)

dir. Andrei Tarkovsky