Introducing Andrei Tarkovsky to an ...

Introducing Andrei Tarkovsky to an audience at the 1983 Telluride Film Festival, Stan Brakhage declared:
I personally think that the three greatest tasks for film in the 20th hundred years are 1) To make the epic, that is, to relate the tales of the tribes of the world. 2) To hold it personal, because only in the eccentricities of our personal lives do we have any chance at the verity 3) To do the dream work, that is to illuminate the borders of the unconscious. (1)
Although he praised Tarkovsky as "the greatest living narrative film maker" and the sole one who ...