MEMORY

“For the first time in the history of the arts, in the history of culture, man found the means to take an impression of time…That is the sense in which the Lumiere brothers were the first to contain the seed of a new aesthetic principle” (Tarkovsky).

Tarkovsky didn’t like montage, one of cinema’s unique ways of working with time, as he thought it divorces us from our own experience. But part of the fascination with film is the opportunity to have new time sensations than those we’re used to, and to live in someone else’s dream.

Film captures collective memory (though from certain angles),...