Andrey Tarkovsky's Polaroids/ Bright, bright day (Foam magazine, winter 2009)
"For Tarkovsky, nostalgia was a complex sentiment, both inscrutably private and part of a great tradition that was distinctively Russian. This tradition went back to Chekhov, Tolstoy and Pushkin and linked Tarkovsky with such iconic figures as Gorky, Prokofiev, Akhmatova and Stravinsky. In them, Russia variously becomes a location, or even a dislocation, as well as a state of mind abstracted from or projected upon other terrains. Tarkovsky wanted his film to be about 'the fatal attachment of Russians to their national roots, their past, their culture, their native places, their families and friends'.
But in his polaroids, journals and films taken together, nostalgia becomes a more complex and ambiguous mix of identification and alienation than simply a longing for one's homeland".
Gunnen Wählstrand/ Untitled (Foam magazine, winter 2009)
Lovely ♥