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Sculpting in Time

Reflections on the Cinema
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Andrey Tarkovsky, the genius of modern Russian cinema—hailed by Ingmar Bergman as "the most important director of our time"—died an exile in Paris in December 1986. In Sculpting in Time, he has left his artistic testament, a remarkable revelation of both his life and work. Since Ivans Childhood won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1962, the visionary quality and totally original and haunting imagery of Tarkovskys films have captivated serious movie audiences all over the world, who see in his work a continuation of the great literary traditions of nineteenth-century Russia. Many critics have tried to interpret his intensely personal vision, but he himself always remained inaccessible.

In Sculpting in Time, Tarkovsky sets down his thoughts and his memories, revealing for the first time the original inspirations for his extraordinary films—Ivans Childhood, Andrey Rublyov, Solaris, The Mirror, Stalker, Nostalgia, and The Sacrifice. He discusses their history and his methods of work, he explores the many problems of visual creativity, and he sets forth the deeply autobiographical content of part of his oeuvre—most fascinatingly in The Mirror and Nostalgia. The closing chapter on The Sacrifice, dictated in the last weeks of Tarkovskys life, makes the book essential reading for those who already know or who are just discovering his magnificent work.

  • Introduction
  • Chapter I: The beginning
  • Chapter II: Art—a yeaming for the ideal
  • Chapter III: Imprinted time
  • Chapter IV: Cinemas destined role
  • Chapter V: The film image
    • Time, rhythm and editing
    • Scenario and shooting script
    • The films graphic realisation
    • The film actor
    • Music and noises
  • Chapter VI: The author in search of an audience
  • Chapter VII: The artists responsibility
  • Chapter VIII: After Nostalgia
  • Chapter IX: The Sacrifice
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
If Sculpting in Time could be distilled to a single message, it would be this: Content and conscience must come before technique—for any artist in any art form. ~Los Angeles Times Book Review
Learning the language of cinema in Tarkovskys films and in this stunning memoir, we reacquaint ourselves with arts function: in the authors words, to turn and loosen the human soul. ~Paste Magazine
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