![]() It will enter the film not as illustration but as its emotional weave. Here in Sweden I have discovered a wonderful folk music which has a fantastic influence on me and it organises the whole material of my new film around itself. If I don't find it I won't replace it with anything else and I won't photograph that image. It's not only the image I could photograph that is important, but for this image I need precisely this snippet of Bach. ![]() “Music is obviously of great importance to me. Let us listen anew to his films and discover the music within them. In his poetics of limiting, slowing down and contemplating Tarkovsky turned out to be very close to many composers and improvisers and this is borne out by the programme of this year’s Nostalgia Festival. He perceived editing as an art of dilution and condensing which respected the flow of time in the particular scenes and its various tensions. At many times, his directing credo seems to refer both to films and to music because his poetical definition of “sculpting in time” seems to perfectly fit both. ![]() Ironically, there is very little actual music in his films but its presence does reveal itself in an often diverse and indirect way. ![]() In a questionnaire from 1974, which he attached to an entry in The Diaries, he mentions St John Passion as his favourite piece. He studied piano and, apparently, wanted to become a conductor. ![]()
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