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tarkovsky
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February 2004 
TARKOVSKY
WEEKEND
Memorial Hall, Betws-y-Coed
As part of the Wales Cinema Day celebrations, Real Institute presents
a chronological retrospective of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky.
Andrei Tarkovsky is almost certainly the most famous Russian filmmaker
since Eisenstein. His visionary approach to cinematic time and space,
as well as his commitment to cinema as poetry, mark his oeuvre as one
of the defining moments in the development of the modern art film. more...
This event opens with the screening of the very rare 45 minute film ‘The
Steamroller and the Violin’, and an illustrated introduction of the
filmmaker’s work by John Riley from BUFVC (British Universities Film
& Video Council).
Plus return of compere Bedwyr Williams, Old Colwyn's answer to Ned Sherrin.
The Steam Roller and the Violin (1960) Friday
20th February 19.00
Tarkovsky’s rarely seen graduation film with evidence of his sublime
visual aesthetic already present. A young child, bullied by his peers
and repressed by his music teacher, finds friendship and release in a
steamroller driver. This strikingly sweet film also acts as a metaphor
for tensions between art and labour in soviet Russia. more...
Ivan's Childhood (1962) Saturday 21st February
14.00
In his first feature length film and one of cinema’s greatest war
movies, Tarkovsky takes a 12 year old orphan’s lost childhood as
the axis of a film which avoids action movie heroics and instead studies
the tensions of a group of soldiers in the ‘dead’ time between
missions. more...
Stalker (1979) Saturday 21st February
19.00
A provincial Russian town devastated by a falling meteorite is now The
Zone – a feared and dangerous place with a rumoured inner chamber
that can grant one’s deepest wish. Though the Zone is sealed-off
by the army, the desperate and suffering still attempt the treacherous
journey lead by secret guides or ‘Stalkers’. more...
The Sacrifice (1986) Sunday 22nd February
14.00
Tarkovsky’s final, visually intoxicating spiritual masterpiece. As
World War III begins, the protaganist offers himself as a sacrifice in
a desperate attempt to save his family – but no-one realises what
he is trying to do. A devastating, but powerfully reaffirming film on
love, humanity, and faith. more...
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