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andrei-tarkovsky: Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Andrei Tarkovsky Polaroid Photography
In 1977, on my wedding ceremony in Moscow, Tarkovsky appeared with a Polaroid camera. He had just shortly discovered this instrument and used it with great pleasure among us. He and Antonioni were my wedding witnesses. According to the custom of the period they had to choose the music played during the signing of the wedding documents. They chose the “Blue Danube.”
At that time Antonioni also often used a Polaroid camera. I remember that in the course of a field survey in Usbekistan where we wanted to shoot a film—but finally did not do it—he gave to three elderly Muslims the pictures he had taken of them. The eldest one as soon as he took a glance at the photos, immediately returned them with these words: “What is it good for, to stop the time?” This unusual refusal was so unexpected that it took us by surprise and we could not reply anything.
Tarkovsky thought a lot about the “flight” of time and wanted to do only one thing: to stop it—even if only for a moment, on the pictures of the Polaroid camera.”
Tonino Guerra
“I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.”
—Andrei Tarkovsky (via sanboin)
“I came here to understand the primal drive of the modern hunter and to find a people who, when the land spoke, could interpret its language. I also came in search of silence so I could begin to hear again.”
—Erika Larsen speaking of her long term photographic project ‘Sami: The People Who Walk With Reindeer’.
(Source: pdnphotooftheday.com, via silencesounds)
growing-orbits: ymutate: Jarek Puczel, Lovers.
“Early begun.
Further spun.
One day done.”
Further spun.
One day done.”
—The Norns’ prophecy to Odin. (via aubade)
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“[From the unknown, a waiter appeared. He chirped and fluttered about them.] Presently, you felt, he would cover them with leaves.”
—Dorothy Parker, from “Dialogue at Three in the Morning” (via the-final-sentence)
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Ilya Repin - Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky’s duel (1899).
