Stalker (PG)
Sun 05 Mar 2023
Category
Price
£8/£5*
Time
2pm
Stalker (PG)
Presented by RADICAL ECOLOGY
Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
1979 | 155 mins
Russian with English subtitles
SHOWING TIMES:
- Sun 5 Mar: 2pm
In response to Earth Spells: Witches of the Anthropocene showing at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Ashish Ghadiali from Radical Ecology has selected Tarkovsky’s 1979 film Stalker which he will introduce to explore themes of landscape, environmental degradation and the uncanny. With support from Arts & Culture at the University of Exeter.
The screening will be introduced with a with a short performance by Plymouth-based artist (and KARST resident), Ashanti Hare called Ritual for Belonging.
Following the screening, there will be a free presentation in the café bar of Exeter Phoenix, from 5-7pm, of Plant Music by sound artist Jason Singh, whose work is an ongoing exploration of the interconnections between the natural word, voice and music technology.
Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic post-apocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide — the Stalker — leads a writer and a professor into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumoured to fulfil one’s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself—Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.
rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on/earth-spells-witches-of-the-anthropocene/
VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, STUDIO 74
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