Nariman Skakov

The phenomenon of time was a central preoccupation of Tarkovsky throughout his career. His films present visions of time by temporal means—that is, in time. Tarkovsky does not represent time through coherent argument, Nariman Skakov proposes; rather, he presents it, and the viewer experiences the argument. The Cinema of Tarkovsky explores the phenomenon of spatio-temporal lapse in Tarkovsky's cinema—from Ivan's...

It is commonly believed that Stalinism ended a vibrant period in Soviet avant-garde art and literature. The triumph of socialist realism, in this view, curtailed experimentation with aesthetic form and replaced it with a call for clarity, accessibility, and ideological conformity. But Stalin’s formula “national in form, socialist in content” gave artists an opening for officially sanctioned formal innovation—as long...