Alison, brava!
This paragraph below excited me. I love Anselm Kiefer and Paul Celan is my
favorite poet. Tarkovsky is amazing--you are so right in calling his work
poetry--he does something with imagery which transcends solidity--the
ephemeral of poetry. Kiefer used Celan's "Todesfuge" which was the bane of
Celan's life as a poet.
I love your piece--bobbi.
I suppose it's no accident that the artists who most profoundly affect me
are inspired by poetry: Kiefer, for example, has made many works inspired by
the poetry of Paul Celan. Tarkovsky's films are full of poems, mostly
written by his father, Arseny Tarkosvky: Stalkercontains two, by Arseny
Tarkovsky and Fyodor Tyutchev. Poetry influences the hypnotic rhythms of
Tarkovsky's editing and the composition of his image-making, which draws
from the imagism of Japanese poems. But these aesthetic decisions are merely
symptoms of his real concern, which is to dare to risk the raw matter of
poetry itself.
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> By chance a a commenter reminded me today of this essay on Tarkovsky's
> Stalker, in which I discuss, among other things, a particular
> influence of poetry on film. Given recent discussions, it might
> interest some of you.
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> http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com/2007/09/tarkovskys-stalker-poet-in-destitute.html
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> xA
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