Do you want to know about creative pressure? Then try working as a filmmaker under the Soviet Regime!
Yusov speaks of his work with Tarkovsky on the films ‘Solaris’ and ‘Andrei Rublev’.
A few years ago the major independent film screen in Bristol (UK) showed a series of Andrei Tarkovsky films and I was fortunate enough to catch ‘Solaris’ on the big screen. My oh my, how your perspective shifts when you have only seen in on a ‘small’ 45 inch screen. It was a total, immersive cinematic effect.
Yusov says,
“All Tarkovsky’s films are extremely expressive cinematographically. It is easy to understand why, because through the medium he was striving to express his ideas. We mustn’t forget that cinema is a protean art; a visual art and it conveys its ideas through images…”
You’ll notice the repeated phrase ‘like-minded people’. To make his films he surrounded himself not with sycophants, but yes, like-minded people, because he knew that it takes a community to make a film.
Note to self: surround myself with like-minded people.
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A film poster for ‘Solaris’