....

[k-tarkovsky]

We'll see each other tomorrow

and the day after tomorrow.

And the day after that, and the next.

And the day after that

And tonight.

L’Eclisse - (1962) Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

[k-tarkovsky]

She declared: “Fate has brought you ruin and degradation after us”

So I said – “Exalted is God! It was you, not fate.”

--Abu Firas al-Hamdani - I see you, defiant against tears

[k-tarkovsky]

“Everything is an eternal circle, and it repeats and repeats itself.”

On the set of Andrei Rublev (1966)

[k-tarkovsky]

Mirror (1975) Andrei Tarkovsky

[k-tarkovsky]

Nostalghia is the story of a Russian poet adrift in Italy, searching for a lost composer and discovering pieces of himself. More than a film, it evokes emotions rare and unnameable a masterpiece beyond measure.

__ Nostalghia (1983 dir. Andrei Tarkovsky) (Cinematographer: Giuseppe Lanci)

[k-tarkovsky]

The Sacrifice ends with one of the greatest shots in history? For me, that would be this one, which carries words...

[k-tarkovsky]

“His favourite colour—the waves of the sea.”

—Time within Time, Andrei Tarkovsky; tr. Kitty Hunter-Blair

[k-tarkovsky]

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

_ Nostalgia (1983). Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky.

Kalimat / Matrahak Bi Albi - Music composed by Ihsan Al Mounzer

Kalimat / Matrahak Bi Albi - Music composed by Ihsan Al Mounzer

[k-tarkovsky]

Persian and Arabic literature are strange cases. Muslims, and especially Arabic literature, greatly influenced European poetry. Dante was strongly influenced by Abu al-Ala' al-Ma'arri. Aragon was influenced by Jami's poems, and Lorca and Rafael Alberti were influenced by Abu Nuwas, according to them.

[k-tarkovsky]

In Bachelard’s Poetics of Reverie (tr. Daniel Russell) a passage eerily akin to Tarkovsky’s Mirror:

[k-tarkovsky]

“I am not writing some textbook as required reading, but offering my own thoughts and reflections, and inviting the reader to share in them.”

From Tarkovsky’s letter to his publishing house; tr. Kitty Hunter-Blair

From Tarkovsky’s letter to his publishing house; tr. Kitty Hunter-Blair

[k-tarkovsky]

“I am tired (…) and there is never any silence.”

—Andrei Tarkovsky, 15 February 1972

[k-tarkovsky]

“Perhaps cinema is the most personal art, the most intimate. In cinema only the author’s intimate truth will be convincing enough for the audience to accept.”

—Andrei Tarkovsky in Time Within Time; tr. Kitty Hunter-Blair

[k-tarkovsky]

If time and memory merge into each other and without time there would be no memory, what then is immortality? Questions I ask Tarkovsky in my dreams.

Tarkovsky answer is :

“We are our immortality.”

[k-tarkovsky]

Tarkovsky, Monday, 22 April, 1974:

“We are guilty of not thinking of [Parajanov] daily…”

(Time Within Time; tr. Kitty Hunter-Blair)

[k-tarkovsky]

A work of true art

Deleuze with Twin Peaks music

[k-tarkovsky]

Mai Ziadeh (1886-1941), Lebanese-Palestinian poet, in Song to the Moon, tr. by Rose Demaris

Ph:Portrait of Mai Ziadeh by Khalil Gibran