At the Cinema Center "Home Movies" (St. Petersburg, Caravan, 12) an exhibition of photographs from 1979-1984, made in Russia and Italy, internationally renowned filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky

ROSPHOTO presents an exhibition of pictures created in the period from 1979 to 1984 in Russia and Italy's world-renowned director Andrei Tarkovsky. The exhibition is Cinema Center "Home Movies" (St. Petersburg, Caravan, 12). The exhibition is organized in conjunction with the gallery White Space (London), with the support of Tarkovsky (Florence), Alexander Larionov (Moscow) and the St. Petersburg Society of the A-I ».

From the memoirs of his son director Andrei Tarkovsky A.: "I well remember in 1980, coming from Italy, Father carefully opened the packaging color Polaroid and took the first shots. He collected material for the film "Nostalgia" and many photographs of family, Sparrow Hills, a village near Ryazan, where we had a house that he loved very much. Thick fog over the river, dusk, moon, over the roof of the house - all these moments of our lives, captured in photographs became the basis of visions and dreams Andrei Gorchakov, the main character. Even the pictures taken by him in Italy, reminded me of Russia, and it seems that he had been trying to find something there like a Russian nature, in their homes, which he never did not see it. "Nostalgia" - probably one of the most autobiographical paintings Father, but then nobody has yet thought about how prophetic it would be for this film.

The day before leaving for the filming in Italy, in March 1982 , the last time he opened the Polaroid and took a few pictures. None of us knew that he would not return, but for some reason everyone was unbearably sad. So we are with him and someone took a picture - we were both sitting on the couch in his office, he hugs me by the shoulders, it was an awkward smile and a pathetic look and behind the wall, including paintings and icons - the old, no longer reflects mirror in a carved wooden frame. Despite the personal nature of these images, I'm sure that everyone who sees these pictures can in their own way to feel them and understand. In his works, Father to create images, whether or polaroids footage, and the power of the artistic image lies in its direct perception, spiritual unity of the viewer and creator, because, he said: "The image - is not this or that sense, expressed by the director, but a world, which is reflected in a drop of water. Only a drop of water !"»

exhibition will run until December 19, 2010.

Source: rosphoto.org