The Phenomenon of Memory in Film--the Case of the' Mirror' Directed by Andriei Tarkovski

• Authors: Kozlowski M.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In this movie the plot is constructed by the thoughts of the narrator. They follow two patters. In the first case a current event is shown as connected with past occurrences. The narrator's mother talks with him on the phone and reminiscences about her former boss who recently died. In the second case two events are connected by spatio-temporal contiguity. The narrator's son is asked by an elderly woman to read something to her. While he sets himself about to do it, the woman disappears leaving a hot cup of tea behind. In each case the troubling question is what is real. In the telephone case it is highly improbable that the print house where the mother had worked could actually make the politically incriminating printing mistake. In the tea cup case it is unbelievable that a ghost of a woman would drink a cup of tea. Memory easily confuses fact and fiction, and creates a world that seems partly real and partly unreal.

Keywords

EN

FILM; MEMORY; TARKOVSKI

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1(49)
• Pages: 181-187
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kozlowski M.

• M. Kozlowski, The National Academy of Film, Television and Theatre, ul. Targowa 61/63, 90-323 Lodz, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

04PLAAAA000119