#tarkovski

Mirror (1975)

"The artistic image is an image that ensures its own development within itself. This image is a seed, a living organism in evolution. It is the symbol of life, but is different from life itself. Life includes death. The image of life either excludes it or considers it as the only possibility for affirming life. The artistic image is in itself an expression of hope, a cry of faith, and this is true independently of what it expresses, even if this were to be man's perdition. The creative act is already in itself a negation of death. It follows that it is intrinsically optimistic, even if in the last analysis the artist is a tragic figure. » Andrei Tarkovsky, "Time Within Time: The Diaries 1970-1986"

Scène du film Nosthalgia de Tarkovski