{"id":12632,"date":"2026-04-25T13:58:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.camruss.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=12632"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:35:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:35:41","slug":"between-frames-the-secrets-of-symbols-and-memory-in-andrei-tarkovskys-mirror-with-ksenia-golubovich","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/events\/between-frames-the-secrets-of-symbols-and-memory-in-andrei-tarkovskys-mirror-with-ksenia-golubovich\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Frames: The Secrets of Symbols and Memory in Andrei Tarkovsky\u2019s \u2018Mirror\u2019 with Ksenia Golubovich"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Andrei Tarkovsky\u2019s\u00a0Mirror<\/em>\u00a0(1974)<\/a> is a film-essay. How was this film created through Tarkovsky\u2019s new method of \u201ccards\u201d and a kind of deliberate \u201cmontage of fragments\u201d? The film quite literally lays siege to our sense of reality and authenticity. Like a mirror \u2014 the first \u201ctruthful\u201d image we have of ourselves \u2014 it is composed of several layers of documentary material, each unlike the other.<\/p>\n

Newsreel footage of world events, the real voices of the director\u2019s parents, and the \u201cunreal\u201d voice of Innokenty Smoktunovsky, indelibly associated in Russian culture with the figure of Hamlet. Scenes of Soviet life combine their elements in such a way that they seem to pass into the reality of masterpieces by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Leonardo da Vinci, and Johannes Vermeer, suspended between the reality of documented fact and the factuality of art. There are also non-professional performers appearing alongside actors.<\/p>\n

The absence of the author\u2019s \u201cbody\u201d within the film itself becomes a meaningful and tangible presence of his restless spirit. And just before the end \u2014 the hand of Tarkovsky himself: the only part of the invisible author\u2019s body that we are shown.<\/p>\n

All this \u2014 and much more \u2014 resembles the sharp edges of a shattered mirror, which the film gathers piece by piece into a lucid utterance, a kind of answer-riddle: \u201cI simply wanted to be happy\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

What is the enigma of this film, lying upon its constantly shifting surface? Why did it originally bear the title\u00a0The White Day<\/em>, and how did it transform into\u00a0Mirror<\/em>? How, indeed, can the personal history of a twentieth-century individual be told at all? These and other questions will be explored by Ksenia Golubovich.<\/p>\n

You can watch\u00a0Mirror<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\u00a0on YouTube.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When:<\/b> Thursday, 28 May, 18:30-20:00 (BST)
\nLanguage:<\/strong>\u00a0English
\nFormat:<\/strong>\u00a0Online via Zoom
\nTickets:<\/strong> \u00a35 \u2013 Standard, free \u2013 CamRuSS Members and Students
\nVideo recording access is included with ticket purchase.
\nVideo recording only:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a35, free \u2013 CamRuSS Members
\nPlease\u00a0book\u00a0via\u00a0AllEvents<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Ksenia Golubovich<\/p><\/div>\n

Ksenia Golubovich<\/strong>\u00a0is a writer, literary critic, translator and cultural scholar. She graduated from the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology at Moscow State University and undertook an internship at the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD in Philology, specialising in Shakespeare studies and English Modernism. Her doctoral dissertation examined the poetry of W. B. Yeats, and she has translated poetry and prose by Yeats, Bruce Chatwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Dylan Thomas. She is the author of studies on Olga Sedakova (\u201cPostmodernism in Paradise\u201d, 2022) and Merab Mamardashvili (\u201cEncounters in an Unknown Homeland\u201d, 2021). From 2016 to 2020 she chaired the A. M. Pyatigorsky Prize for the Philosophical Essay. She has also created and taught courses on \u201cLiterature and Contemporary Art\u201d and \u201cCinema and Contemporary Art\u201d. She teaches Poetry and Art at the Moscow School of New Cinema.
\nKsenia is the author of a trilogy devoted to the end of the twentieth century: The Fulfilment of Wishes, Serbian Parables, and The Russian Daughter of an English Writer.<\/p>\n

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Mirror (1975) original poster<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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A still image from the film Mirror<\/p><\/div>\n

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A still image from the film Mirror<\/p><\/div>\n

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A still image from the film Mirror<\/p><\/div>\n

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A still image from the film Mirror<\/p><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrei Tarkovsky\u2019s\u00a0Mirror\u00a0(1974) is a film-essay. How was this film created through Tarkovsky\u2019s new method of \u201ccards\u201d and a kind of deliberate \u201cmontage of fragments\u201d? The film quite literally lays siege to our sense of reality and authenticity. Like a mirror … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[473,223,475,423,422,476,474,477,478,433],"tribe_events_cat":[14,52,99,23],"class_list":["post-12632","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tag-andrei-tarkovsky","tag-culture","tag-film","tag-film-lecture","tag-ksenia-golubovich","tag-methods","tag-mirror","tag-477","tag-478","tag-433","tribe_events_cat-arthistory","tribe_events_cat-culture","tribe_events_cat-online-talk","tribe_events_cat-talk","cat_arthistory","cat_culture","cat_online-talk","cat_talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12632"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12652,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12632\/revisions\/12652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12632"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=12632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}