Aesthetics of Dreams and Questions of Memory in Tarkovsky’s 'Ivan’s Childhood' and 'Nostalghia'

• In Event: Representations of Childhood in Russian and Polish Films

Abstract

In this paper, Tarkovsky’s Ivan’s Childhood and Nostalghia will be situated within cinematic philosophy, its main approaches and its main authors. Aesthetics of dreams and questions of memory and its reliability are discussed; computational methods are applied as an exercise in cinemetrics, while analyzing these films.

Author

• Alla Baeva, St. John's U