Tarkovsky Interruptus

An evening screening and discussion of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film STALKER, with writers Geoff Dyer, Phillip Lopate, and Francine Prose; master film and sound editor Walter Murch; spaceprobe photo curator, filmmaker, and writer Michael Benson; and Slate film critic Dana Stevens; introduced by New York Institute for the Humanities director Lawrence Weschler.
On the occasion of the publication of the novelist-essayist Geoff Dyer's latest digressive interpretive rhapsody, Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room, the New York Institute for the Humanities, in conjunction with the Illustration Department at Parsons The New School for Design, presented a screening of the film in question, the legendary Soviet master Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 masterpiece STALKER, introduced by Mr. Dyer, but then interrupted, every half hour or so, by a conversation among a distinguished panel of Tarkovsky fanatics.
This event was held on March 10, 2012, at The New School's Tishman Auditorium. Further information at nyihumanities.o....