Widely celebrated as one of cinema’s greatest visionaries, Andrei Tarkovsky (a one-time visitor to Filmhouse, pictured above in Screen 2!) redefined cinema as a profound, spiritual art. Favouring hypnotic long takes, metaphysical themes, and stunning natural imagery to explore memory, faith, and human existence, he famously referred to his craft as "sculpting in time".  

His iconic works – including Andrei Rublev, Solaris, and Stalker – are recognized for their dreamlike, highly poetic imagery and philosophical depth and whilst he only made seven feature films, his uncompromising style deeply transformed world cinema and influenced a generation of filmmakers, most notably Béla Tarr, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and even Christopher Nolan.  

Nostalghia and The Sacrifice (the only two to be made outside of Russia and recently rereleased in 4K restorations) played at Filmhouse back in July and will play again, this time preceded by his entire (feature) filmography, screening in the order he made them and starting with Ivan’s Childhood.