Esmaecimento do exílio, paisagem de guerra: as polaroides de Andrei Tarkóvski

Abstract

This work has as research object the sixty polaroid images produced by the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky that make up the book Tarkóvski Instantâneos published in 2012, by the Cosac Naify publisher. The filmmaker's encounter with the instant camera symbolizes Tarkovsky's discovery of the experience of a foreigner. Most of the photographs were taken in the process of waiting for authorization to film in Italy. And the rest narrates about his period of self-exile in the country. The first chapter of the research builds a brief overview of the history of the instant camera and its use by artists and other filmmakers. After that, the technical functioning of the apparatus was related to the experimentation of images as authorial training by Andrei Tarkovsky. In the second chapter, a biographical overview of the director was performed, relating important events to the research interests, and the images that complete the meanings of the experience of foreigner and self-exile were analyzed. Finally, chapter three presents the Russian symbols, the analysis of the snapshots related to them and an association of the images with the painting. More than records, the photos retain the memory of a unique time in the filmmaker's personal life. A time’s thinker, Tarkovsky was able to find in polaroids the exercise of natural fading intrinsic to the image and the composition of the war landscape linked to Russian nostalgia.