Spirit, Matter and Sacrifice: The Aesthetic Dimension of the Spiritual Tradition in Andrei Tarkovsky's Films
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Andrei Tarkovsky is one of the most important directors in the history of cinema, specially known for his ability to renew cinematographic language, his distinct artistic personality and his important work as a film theorist. Through the seven masterpieces that make his career, the filmmaker offers us an itinerary of great spiritual and philosophical depth, in which Eastern and Western traditions regarding spirituality come together harmoniously. Concepts such as time, spirit, matter and sacrifice are fundamentally important in his work, bringing it close to the psychological novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Tarkovsky's journey as an artist with great character and his categorical rejection of commercial cinema will lead him to a confrontation with the authorities of his country, and he is forced into self-exile. During his exile firstly in Italy and later in Sweden he directs his last two masterpieces, final testimonies of a tormented conscience which has to face the disappearance of the world´s spirituality.
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