Tarkovski’s meeting in Italy : ’Il cinema è un mosaico fatto di tempo’ (1984)

PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR COPYRIGHT REQUESTS. THANK YOU ! Andrei Tarkovskij (Tarkovski) English subtitles thanks to Christian Dos Santos and correted by Alexia Santos. Spanish subs / Espanol subtitulos CINEMA IS A MOSAIC MADE UP OF TIME Donatella Baglivo / Italy / 1984/60 ’/ col. End of 1982, the Municipality of Rome is organizing an event called “Ladri di cinema“. Its principle: 14 filmmakers (Wenders, Iosseliani, Syberberg, Schroeter, Kazan, Bellocchio ...) are invited to talk about movies and authors who have influenced them. The lecture by Andrei Tarkovsky that occasion, filmed by Donatella Baglivo, lets see him develop some of his major ideas on artistic creation and explain in particular the importance of the temporal dimension in his conception of cinema. He also expressed dismay at the poverty of contemporary cinema: the virtual absence of a real thought on the cinema, the primacy given to the entertainment cinema. It shows and finally commented excerpts from film directors of films that have stronge