I chose to analyse Nostalghia's dream scene where after fighting with his interpreter he remembers his family and house in Russia.
During this scene, Tarkovsky creates frames where the camera stands still for very long moments.The landscape becomes surreal.The camera sets images as paintings, gives them flatness.The characters simply become repeated objects as part of the painting. "Perpendicular camera positions, the flatening impact of a telephoto lens, and the immobility of the figures and their slow down movement also reiforces the painterly effect of Tarkovsky's images." The link between family, house and country is experimented in this scene.
Fog, trees and water all have meanings. In this case I belive the water gives a feeling of surrealness and estrangeent. All these elements give a feeling of evasion and being lost. The vastness of the landscape is an element that ties in with the Mary Miss installation in Battery Park .
Tarkovsky moves the camera in a perpendicular straight line and films a line of characters who by turning their heads lead the camera to the next target. He slowly creates a mirror image.
What i am mostly interested in is the idea of evasion, repetition and mirror image.
The words I have been trying to work with are absence, forgotten, evasion, continuity....
I have many ideas but i haven't been able to come up with a metaphor. Marc and Dan i would really appreciate your help or anyone else who has suggestions
I have two sites in mind one would be in an area of battery park city, because of the park area+the water+ the repetition in the buildings behing it, I think the shift between the peacefullness of the landscape and the crowded buildings could be interesting, or, in the lower east there is a small park in between two streets which is interesting.
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i cant enlarge the middle drawing. more later.
you need to film. pick one or start shooting them both.
Tarkovsky's use of long camera shots is one of the distinguishing hallmarks of his style. In the clip he cuts the film five times in something like 8 minutes, from when they go into the hall until the end. Generally 2-3 minutes of uncut film is considered to be a very long shot. At the end of Tarkovsky's final film, The Sacrifice, he films in the landscape for something like 10 continuous minutes.
continuity...In Tarkovsky's best dream sequences he maintains spatial continuity when transitioning between the real world and the dream world. Sometimes he does it without cutting the film.
this analysis is good (still cant open second image.)
so in both the installation and the film we are dealing with frams and spatial fields...they are trangressed visually, by other characters, and by the viewer as the camera as it rolls backward in the film. it then pans parellel to the picture frame...as you descibe in your drawings.
so how does this influence your filming? perhaps just thinking about these 2 movements of the camera and the compositions identified? why arent you considering looking at an interior space as well? especially around pratt...the axial formality of the buildings allows for much of the framing to occur. the stacks and the thresholds in the library for example. there are many others...maybe in addition to the waterfront site where you can consider elements along the horizon...and greater depth. can you identify any of this mirroring at different scales? the sculpture within the park vs an urban planning strategy? just some thoughts here...
yes...and thanks alex.
how might you adress this slowness?
the city is quick?
also...considering the atmospheres suggested...some may be apparent as you film at different times, however (in a subtle and thoughtful manner) you may use effects afforded by the editing program...
flatness...
Thank you Marc and Alex for the feedback. Marc sorry about the film i showed in class, i had really misunderstood what i was supposed to do.
I am trying to figure out now how i can put all this information together in order to focus on something that will work for my film. I think i could have 3 main frames, one of them being an interior space and the other two the horizon line and something else. I would like to use the idea of mirroring and spatial continuity but i am not sure i understand how i can do that.
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