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- Title
The Multiplicity of a Still: Considerations of a Still from Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker.
- Authors
LOIA, DONATO
- Abstract
Three figures stare at us standing at the centre of the cinematic image. The shape of the screen is metaphorically doubled by the frame of a crumbling architectural aperture. Behind the figures, a patchy wall obscures the horizon. In the "space-in-between" the figures and the material limit of the screen where the filmic image is projected, rain showers down on the ground. In this paper, I will investigate the metaphorical dimension of a still from Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker without considering the overall narrative of the movie. In particular, I will reflect on the still's different levels of multiplicity and their possible significance while looking at the structural and compositional strategy of this image. Building on Michel Foucault's "heterotopia," Roland Barthes's and Laura Mulvey's reflections on still's ontological status, and Robert Bird's previous studies on the Russian director, I will propose the articulation of an "ethics of spaces-in-between," intersubjective and dialogical in its dimensions.
- Subjects
TARKOVSKII, Andrei Arsen'evich, 1932-1986; IMAGE processing; DIGITAL image processing; BARTHES, Roland, 1915-1980; FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984
- Publication
Mise-en-Scène, 2018, Vol 3, Issue 2, p19
- ISSN
2560-7065
- Publication type
Article