film book: Sulpting in Time: The Great Russian Filmmaker Discusses His Art, by Andrei Tarkovsky

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title: Sculpting in Time
writer: Andrei Tarkovsky
editor/translator: Kitty Hunter-Blair
publisher: Die Versiegelte Zeit Germany (original); University of Texas Press (English Version)
published on: 1986
ISBN: 0-292-77624-1
volume: 122 pages
size: 10 Mb

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Sculpting In Time is a book by Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky about art and cinema in general, and his own films in particular. It was originally published in 1986 in German shortly before the author's death, and published in English in 1987, translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair. The title refers to Tarkovsky's own name for his style of filmmaking.

The book's main statement about the nature of cinema is summarized in the statement, "The dominant, all-powerful factor of the film image is rhythm, expressing the course of time within the frame." Tarkovsky describes his own distaste for the growing popularity of rapid-cut editing and other devices that he believes to be contrary to the true artistic nature of the cinema.

The book also contains a fair amount of Tarkovsky's personal writings on his life and work, lectures and discussions during making of Andrei Rublyov with a film history student named Olga Surkova, who later became a professional critic and helped in writing of this book. The book has commentary on each of his 7 major feature films, and his complex relationship with the Soviet Union. The final chapter, a discussion of his film The Sacrifice, was dictated in the last weeks of his life.

Table of Contents


  Introduction
  Chapter I: The beginning
  Chapter II: Art—a yeaming for the ideal
  Cllapter III: Imprinted time
  Chapter IV: Cinema's destined role
  Chapter V: The film image
      Time, rhythm and editing
      Scenario and shooting script
      The film's graphic realisation
      The film actor
      Music and noises
   Chapter VI: The author in search of an audience
   Chapter VII: The artist's responsibility
   Chapter VIII: After Nostalgia
   Chapter IX: The Sacrifice
   Conclusion
   Notes
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