tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29711878.post7569230510385060079..comments2024-03-23T09:27:34.737+02:00Comments on Traditionalists: On Elements of Traditionalist Symbolism in TarkovskyMark Sedgwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09998818251387897344noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29711878.post-6936897189523255662021-03-08T12:38:10.175+02:002021-03-08T12:38:10.175+02:00Its hard to believe that Tarkovskij read tradition...Its hard to believe that Tarkovskij read traditionalist in Russia, but may be in Italy. It's strongly possible he knew the Florenskij's thought, more at all about perspective. It's the true that He refused to consider his language as symbolical, but reality for him is simply a metaphysical symbol, exactly as the traditionalist Guénon thought and perhaps some other thinker also in Russia. The young Tarkovskij studied Arabic. He was interested in Islamic mysticism and it's possible he know the Gurdjieff's thought. Let me report some suggestions from these websites <br /><br />2020<br /><br />http://www.instoria.it/home/tarkovskij_lo_specchio_andrej_rublev_popolo_russo.htm<br /><br />2003 <br /><br />https://web.archive.org/web/20191123050242/http://www.activitaly.it/immaginicinema/tarkovskij/specchio/specchio.htm <br />https://web.archive.org/web/20191122043359/http://www.activitaly.it/immaginicinema/tarkovskij/specchio/specchio_1.htm<br />https://web.archive.org/web/20191122043031/http://www.activitaly.it/immaginicinema/tarkovskij/specchio/specchio_2.htm<br />http://www.activitaly.it/immaginicinema/tarkovskij/specchio/specchio_3.htm <br /><br />2001<br /><br />https://web.archive.org/web/20191024194456/http://www.activitaly.it/immaginicinema/rublev.html<br /> Bronsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14028859072539053249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29711878.post-3990384255518989832014-08-22T02:06:35.960+02:002014-08-22T02:06:35.960+02:00Tarkovski, a wonder of cinematics. Such inspiring ...Tarkovski, a wonder of cinematics. Such inspiring artist.quantumhttps://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29711878&postID=7569230510385060079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29711878.post-79578437812235190782014-05-29T17:19:51.719+02:002014-05-29T17:19:51.719+02:00I had two key problems reading this. First is that...I had two key problems reading this. First is that it stretches the notion of 'Traditionalism' to breaking point. You can be influenced by the Tarot, for example, without any contact with 'Traditionalism'. But, more importantly, Tarkovsky explicitly denied using "symbolism" in his films on strictly Orthodox grounds, when he was asked what was the symbolism of rain in his films, for example, he said, 'No symbolism, just rain' by which he meant (and I asked him afterwards) that it is the very nature of water to be multi-faceted. It is as much in the nature of rain to be baptismal as it is to be drunk. Nothing stands in by way of participation for something else, it is that thing in itself (if you see the world aright). An icon is not a symbolic representation of a saint, it is the saint. He was much closer to the tradition that Is Orthodoxy than he was to any 'Traditionalism' (notwithstanding there are Traditionalists who are Orthodox).Nicholas Colloffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677907138534928912noreply@blogger.com