After the panel [at the 1983 Tellur...

After the panel [at the 1983 Telluride Film Festival], they had arranged for Tarkovsky to behold some of my films. I had warned Bill Pence that he might not like my films and I was nervous about showing them. All they could arrange, subject to the circumstances, was a little expanse in the old Sheridan [i]cabaret[/i] It was about 6' by means of 10' and it had in it a brass bed, a bureau upon which the projector sat, and eight people: the projectionist; nearest to him on the bureau, the Polish animator Zbigniew Rybczynski, who won an Oscar this year for his short Tango; a Russian scholar of film and Tarkovsky's