Stalker is something I watch a lot. It has been a major influence on my work of late. There was something very Tarkovski about the whole experience from the minute we went through that check point to the minute we rode away from the beach with those lads firing bb guns at us.
Feeling watched or monitored by high level military but being so remote, the bizarrely quaint idyl maintained by the locals around that visitor centre, the complex hardware dotting the landscape. It felt so contradictory... home / homeland / official secrets / local ghosts / tea and cake...
Stalker is something I watch a lot. It has been a major influence on my work of late. There was something very Tarkovski about the whole experience from the minute we went through that check point to the minute we rode away from the beach with those lads firing bb guns at us.
Feeling watched or monitored by high level military but being so remote, the bizarrely quaint idyl maintained by the locals around that visitor centre, the complex hardware dotting the landscape. It felt so contradictory... home / homeland / official secrets / local ghosts / tea and cake...