Black Square presents: Mirror

Void Micro Cinema is teaming up with GS Film Minds, a Winnipeg-based film education project founded by producer and educator Julia Sharipova, to bring a diverse and wide-ranging survey of world cinema to Winnipeg with the ongoing screening series Black Square.

First up in a slate of three screenings from the former Soviet Union is Russian cinema master Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror
MirrorDirected by Andrei Tarkovsky1975 | 106 minsA senses-ravishing odyssey through the halls of time and memory, Andrei Tarkovsky’s sublime reflection on 20th century Russian history is as much a film as it is a poem composed in images, as much a work of cinema as it is a hypnagogic hallucination. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystic power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics upon its release due to its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the titan director’s most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen.
Featuring a special video intro from Olga Surkova, a Russian film historian, writer, and close associate of Tarkovsky

"Mirror deserves a big-screen viewing, with its smorgasbord of memories in dream, drama and newsreel form from the life of a dying poet." - Kate Muir, The Times UK
"The smallest details (a stammering child, the wrinkle in the turned page of a book) stick like burrs, and we are left to wonder if any director has delved with more modesty and honesty into the heartbreak of the past." - Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

Screening copy courtesy of Janus Films