ReFocus: The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky 66616_Toymentsev.indd616_Toymentsev.indd i 112/01/212/01/21 111:211:21 AAMM ReFocus: The International Directors Series Series Editors: Robert Singer, Stefanie Van de Peer, and Gary D. Rhodes Board of advisors: Lizelle Bisschoff (University of Glasgow) Stephanie Hemelryck Donald (University of Lincoln) Anna Misiak (Falmouth University) Des O’Rawe (Queen’s University Belfast) ReFocus is a series of contemporary methodological and theoretical approaches to the interdisciplinary analyses and interpretations of international film directors, from the celebrated to the ignored, in direct relationship to their respective culture—its myths, values, and historical precepts—and the broader parameters of international film history and theory. 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For more information visit our website: edinburghuniversitypress.com © editorial matter and organization Sergey Toymentsev, 2021 © the chapters their several authors, 2021 Edinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun—Holyrood Road 12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry Edinburgh EH8 8PJ Typeset in 11/13 Ehrhardt MT by IDSUK (DataConnection) Ltd, and printed and bound in Great Britain A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 4744 3723 3 (hardback) ISBN 978 1 4744 3725 7 (webready PDF) ISBN 978 1 4744 3726 4 (epub) The right of the contributors to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498). 66616_Toymentsev.indd616_Toymentsev.indd iivv 112/01/212/01/21 111:211:21 AAMM Contents List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: Refocus on Tarkovsky 1 Sergey Toymentsev Part I Backgrounds Introduction 13 1. Tarkovsky’s Childhood: Between Trauma and Myth 15 Evgeniy Tsymbal 2. Trava-Travlya-Trata: Tarkovsky’s Psychobiography à la Lettre 30 Andrei Gornykh 3. Does Tarkovsky Have a Film Theory? 46 Sergey Toymentsev Part II Film Method Introduction 67 4. The Child’s Eye View of War in Ivan’s Childhood 69 Sara Pankenier Weld 5. The Truth of Direct Observation: Andrei Rublev and the Documentary Style of Soviet Cinema in the 1960s 85 Zdenko Mandušić 6. Temporality and the Long Take in Stalker 102 Donato Totaro 7. Framing Infinity in Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia 119 Yelizaveta Goldfarb Moss 8. Approaching the Irreal: Realistic Sound Design in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Films 135 Julia Shpinitskaya 66616_Toymentsev.indd616_Toymentsev.indd v 112/01/212/01/21 111:211:21 AAMM vi CONTENTS Part III Theoretical Approaches Introduction 153 9. Andrei Tarkovsky, Or the Thing from Inner Space 155 Slavoj Žižek 10. Wounds of the Past: Andrei Tarkovsky and the Melancholic Imagination 178 Linda Belau and Ed Cameron 11. The Flesh of Time: Solaris and the Chiasmic Image 195 Robert Efird 12. Cinema as Spiritual Exercise: Tarkovsky and Hadot 209 Anne Eakin Moss 13. Memory and Trace 225 Mikhail Iampolski Part IV Legacy Introduction 241 14. Zvyagintsev and Tarkovsky: Influence, Depersonalization, and Autonomy 242 Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya 15. Von Trier and Tarkovsky: From Antithesis to Counter-sublime 257 Sergey Toymentsev and Anton Dolin Index 275 66616_Toymentsev.indd616_Toymentsev.indd vvii 112/01/212/01/21 111:211:21 AAMM Figures I.1 Monument to Andrei Tarkovsky and Andrei Rublev’s characters in Suzdal 2 I.2 Monument to Andrei Tarkovsky, Gennady Shpalikov, and Vasily Shukshin at the entrance to the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, Moscow 3 2.1 Replica of Tarkovsky’s childhood house in Mirror 32 4.1 Ivan with Kholin and Galtsev in Ivan’s Childhood 76 4.2 Ivan in burned ruins in Ivan’s Childhood 76 4.3 Final photograph of Ivan after capture in Ivan’s Childhood 78 5.1 Watching the Jester’s performance in Andrei Rublev 87 5.2 Watching the persecution of pagan peasants in Andrei Rublev 92 6.1 Minimalism in the long take: opening camera position in Stalker 104 6.2 Minimalism in the long take: closing camera position in Stalker 104 6.3 Creation time in the long take: opening camera position in Stalker 109 6.4 Creation time in the long take: closing camera position in Stalker 110 6.5 Color and surprise “infects” the city in Stalker 114 7.1 The final static shot in Nostalghia 120 7.2 Outside landscape spilling into Domenico’s house through the window frame in Nostalghia 125 8.1 The Tokyo sequence in Solaris 136 8.2 The Stargate sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey 136 11.1 Hari with the photograph of her prototype in Solaris 201 12.1 Gorchakov’s wife in the dream sequence in Nostalghia 220 12.2 Gorchakov’s family in the dream sequence in Nostalghia 220 66616_Toymentsev.indd616_Toymentsev.indd vviiii 112/01/212/01/21 111:211:21 AAMM viii FIGURES 14.1 Brueghelian landscape in Mirror 251 14.2 Brueghelian landscape in Loveless 251 15.1 She lying in the grass in Antichrist 268 15.2 Stalker lying in the grass in Stalker 268 66616_Toymentsev.indd616_Toymentsev.indd vviiiiii 112/01/212/01/21 111:211:21 AAMM Notes on Contributors Linda Belau is Professor in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies and Director of the Film Studies Program at the University of Texas- Rio Grande Valley. She is the co-editor of Topologies of Trauma: Essays on the Limits of Knowledge and Memory (2001), Special Issue editor of Postmodern Culture (2002), Special Issue editor of Women Writers (2010), and the author of several articles on film studies and film theory, psychoanalysis, theories of trauma, and cultural studies. Ed Cameron is Professor of Literary and Film Studies in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of The Psychopathology of the Gothic Romance (2010). He is also the author of numerous articles linking psychoanalysis, film studies, and cul- tural critique. He has most recently published on the films of Federico Fellini, Harmony Korine, David Lynch, Todd Haynes, and Steve McQueen. Anton Dolin is a Russian journalist, film critic, and scholar. He is the chief editor of Iskusstvo kino, one of the earliest film magazines in Europe. He regu- larly writes film reviews for the journal Afisha and the site Afisha—Vozdukh. He has repeatedly received awards from the Russian Guild of Film Scholars and Critics for his contributions in film scholarship. Among his books are Lars von Trier: Kontrol’nye rabolty, analiz, interv’iu (2004), Takesi Kitano: Detskie gody (2006), Ulovka XXI (2010), German: Interv’iu, esse, stsenarii (2011), and Jim Jarmusch: Stikhi i muzyka (2019). Robert Efi rd is Associate Professor of Russian at Virginia Tech. He extensively published on Tarkovsky and Russian cinema in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Slavic and East European Journal Studies, Russian and Soviet Cinema, Journal of Narrative Theory, Transnational Cinemas, and others. 66616_Toymentsev.indd616_Toymentsev.indd iixx 112/01/212/01/21 111:211:21 AAMM x NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Andrei Gornykh is Professor of Media Studies at the European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania. He received his PhD in Philosophy from Saint Petersburg State University. He is the author of two monographs: Formalism: From Structure to Text and Beyond (2003) and Media and Society (2012). His research interests are in visual and cultural studies, critical theory, psychoanaly- sis, film theory, and visual anthropology. He is the author of a number of creative works, such as popular science films for TV, educational DVD, and video. Mikhail Iampolski is Professor of Comparative Literature and Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. He has authored many books and articles on film and visual representation, including The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film (1998). Zdenko Mandušić is Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Lan- guages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. He received his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Chicago. His dissertation entitled “Camerawork: Soviet Film Experience and Visual Poetics After Stalin” investigates how Soviet films of the Post-Stalinist period communicated cultural values through cinemato- graphic techniques, how formal elements organized viewer perception of these values, and how these formal elements were conceptualized.