The redemptive limus Andrej Tarkovski

Abstract

The cinema of Tarkovski abounds in symbolic presences.The paper gives back, through an extended and devout contact to the various works of the Russian director, the constellation of its elements and its more meaningful figures. The dialogue earthwater, the work of the fire, the recurrence of the tree, the forest, the infancy, the slow flow of the time, the poetical phenomenology of the home. In the cinema of Tarkovski one gets lost, its work, a true alchemic opus magnus, is a travel in the survival of a mystical yearning deeply incarnated in the terrestrial matter. Its circular journery, from the burnt tree of Ivan to the tree that comes back to life miraculously at the end of the Sacrifice, is a fundamental dowel for being able to experience the power of the creative imagination when still it is the expression of an inspired sensibility to Anima Mundi.