carving time

★ Translated and published from Russian original for the first time

★ He carves time all his life, for the time that has passed, consumed or not yet owned

★ As long as you love movies, let's carve time together

His films are like miracles. He has created a new language that is true to the nature of the film, capturing life as a mirror image and as a dream. He doesn't explain anything, he is just an observer, but he makes his video activities reach a state of perfection. ——Ingmar Bergman

If we could condense "Sculpting Time" into a single message, it would have to be this: For any artist and art form, content and conscience should come before technique. -- "Los Angeles Times"

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What do people go to the cinema to see? What reason brought them into a dark room?

For time: For time that has passed, wasted, or not yet possessed.

What is the essence of filmmaking? To a certain extent, it can be defined as carving time.

It's like a sculptor facing a piece of marble. He knows the shape of the finished product, and then removes all redundant parts little by little.

The filmmaker also removes all unnecessary parts from the huge block of time that contains the massive facts of life, leaving only the parts that can become the elements of the film, and only the parts that can clearly describe the image of the film.

"Sculpting Time" is Tarkovsky's lifelong quest for film and art.