Time, Tarkovsky And The Pandemic
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"the days are long and the years are short"
The years go fast and the days go so slow
Hey Sam, good to see ya :)
Days are short, and years are shorter yet. I need couple of trillion years.
@@lainopening4958 you can have mine
My life in a nutshell
Nerdwriter and Tarkovsky? This is a good day
Oh hell yeah!
My dream came true but I WANT MORE OF THIS 😃❤️
This is brilliant, please please please talk about Stalker and Solaris!
@@kenton643 yass 💯❤️
Nerdwriter1, Tarkovsky and TheGaroStudios in the same place?
Too good to be true
glad you're back. love you.
wow you really are risen
@@aletheiaverite he was a day early tho
Yeah, but you love everybody, right?
High praise.
@Jesus Christ Glad you're back too
Imagine if Tarkovsky filmed a fast food commercial.
The fry cook trying for 9 minutes to light the gas stove.
Fades to black.
"I'm lovin' it."
haha
Loooool now I imagine how others would do a fast food commercial.
Tarantino - Somehow feet prepares the food
Aronofsky - Family orders food and while the youngest son enjoys his meal, a bomb destroys the whole place.
Lars von Trier - NSFW.
@@OfficialEDC I love this.
Cursed comment
That was hilarious
I heard nothing he said I was just watching this guy walk
Same lol
Still watching the video right now hoping the candle doesn’t go out and he doesn’t have to do the whole fucking thing again
great russian actor by the way) Oleg Yankovsky. He was in the Mirror too.
such tension built from such a simple shot. a great example of tarkovsky's genius
@@arthurb8436 if you understand why he's doing this in the context of the movie, it's heartbreaking too.
'Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.' -Schopenhauer
I humbly disagree. Remember your childhood when you were free of responsibilities and quite independent when it comes to time. We were rarely bored compared to other phases of our lives. Alongside this "boredom’s climax" pain is getting enlarged due to the structure of our everyday life. I wont elaborate on death,diseases etc cause its just out of our control,it would be arrogant to explain or worse to complain about something beyond our power.Ofc we can temporarily prevent it thanks to sciences but this nihilism is a joke. How exactly can we define something as independent from human nature as life with two abstract words that are usually connected to human acts?
@@rosspy2018 ok buddy
@Naywaf well didn’t expect an answer tbh. I Just wanted to improvise hahahaha
"Eng-er-land swings, like a pendulum do." - Roger Miller
@@rosspy2018 As a counter to you view, you might be interested in Byung-Chul Han's Palliative Society (at the moment it is only available in German, but it will receive an English translation later this year. Han argues that pain is disappearing, and that dying is particularly difficult today.
In a depiction of a man trying to cross a courtyard without the flame of the candle he is holding going out, Tarkovsky manages to generate more tension than many films featuring a ticking clock and a nuclear weapon.
An empty pool...
I love how all Nerdwriter needed to do to prove his point in this video was air a single, ongoing Tarkovsky clip. That's the most Tarkovsky thing one could do.
Tarkovsky to Nolan on 'time' : "Don't understand it, feel it."
love that
I'm confused, tarkovsky never spoke to nolan, he died in the 80s, and the two directors couldn't be more different in how they filmed time
@@greyfox4838 I'm sorry to say this, but you sir just gotten r/wooosh
@@Zack-xv2yc please explain
@Jack Francis such a great comparison tbh I loved nolan but after discovery tarkovsky there's no going back for me
I’m at a shitty job where the hours drag and I see this video pop up in my spare time. Around five and a half minutes, the space above my mask is wet with tears.
I’m a film school grad who fell out of love with cinema during quarantine and this video reminded me the power of watching a movie. I still feel goosebumps on my arm. Thanks for reminding me of Tarkovsky and all your work.
What are you doing nowadays.
Wow, that was a very introspective way to start the day. Thank you, great video.
I first saw that clip from "Nostalgia" in a puzzle game known as "The Witness." The game's inclusion of it, as an optional secret you could painstakingly find and view, as I interpreted it, was meant as a visual euphemism for the grueling feeling of having to start over. The whole game itself has no written instructions. No writing at all. Everything in the game is something you learn visually, audibly, and through trial-and-error, making it one of the most uniquely challenging puzzle games I've ever come across. Some of those puzzles were so involved, frustrating, and complicated that it really would feel as though that candle had blown out, and now you must walk all the way back; especially considering that every puzzle must be made with a carefully threaded, uninterrupted line that never crosses itself. That's about as far as the relevance of this game has with the clip, but I am very curious about what you would extract from The Witness. The game gave me a lot to ponder, during and after. It had me feeling insightful, empowered, and solemn all at once. It game me a new perspective, which is a major part of the game's mechanic. Perspective.
I clicked on this video because I recognized the image from the game. That game is such a masterpiece of immersion and true puzzle solving. Brilliant game.
Funny how the previous game by the same dev "Braid" is entirely about manipulating time and viewing it from different perspectives. Rewinding it, slowing it down, time moving directly with the player. Easily the best puzzle game I ever played and one of my favorite games of all time. Just love everything that uses time as its subject like the prince of persia and tenet
writing a video on this. thanks for the insite.
There was another content creator that talked about the witness and that clip, but I could have sworn it was Nerdwriter again D: I can't remember who it was. Folding ideas maybe? GMTK? Jacob Geller?
Great game and the first time I saw this clip too but since you mentioned it one question comes to my mind: did you finished it?
My fav tarkowsky movie is mirror, that house buring scene is classic
It's fitting that I'm watching this while I procrastinate what I should be doing.
That Tarkovsky clip is making me choke up an cry and I’m not sure why. Maybe because I feel like I can relate with the character about so many projects in my life.
Can relate so much. You'd probably believe that I'm lying but I was planning to start a project and make a video talking about time, with this particular scene, about tarkovsky's thoughts on the time. Of course that The Nerd Writer did a wonderful job, but I felt like a candle just died for me lol.
But you could start it again. As grueling as it may be, you CAN light it up again
here's why i think it's so relateble:
that scene is the synthesis of the whole movie, and the movie is about this character's spiritual journey. it's relateble because it perfectly simbolizes the human aproach to what's above him: the long journey, the many failed attempts, the light we carry, the wind that blows it off, the cathartic satisfaction when you finnaly do it. everything in that scene is perfect in the sense that it perfectly boils down to it's most basic patterns the human journey towards God (and, analogically, to eveything we value more then ourselves).
The path of that scene was heartrenchingly beautiful. The fear, hope, pain, control, and chaos all blended into this beautifully simple walk. Walking from one side to the other, like the chicken crossing the road. No meaning save what is imbued in it by the walker, the teller, and the viewer. Through a space once filled with life, now abandoned, filled with the detritus of a world that would rather it disappear, save the man and the candle.
Was a med student going into the pandemic, am a doctor heading out of it. This was spot on, and much needed. Thank you.
Honestly, until you brought attention to the movie in your words I was just quietly staring at the mans feet and wondering why he's not walking around the little pools of water xD
But why was he trying to cross with a lit candle?!
Gotta watch the film to find out 😉 a really beautiful and spiritual film.
@@weirdelf8604 name please
@@asdfg_98 Nostalgia
Nerdwriter and Tarkovsky: the planets have truly aligned 🤯
Tarkovsky wrote a book called Sculpting Time. You can see similar scenes in the rain over the breakfast scene on Solaris, and the scene of overpass in the same movies (filmed in Tokyo by the way). Sometimes he remember me of Yasujiro Ozu for instance showing the clothes hanged for drying for a long time on the front of the building in An Autumn Afternoon.
Beautiful
Sculpting in time
"Time is a valuable thing. Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings. Watch it count down to the end of the day. The clock ticks life away."
-Linkin Park, 2001
It's so unreal
"That's what happens when you get older. Time has already got a piece of you. Eventually, it's got a taste for you, and eventually, it's gonna eat you".
All these words they make no sense
I find bliss in ignorance.
Tryin to hold on
We didn't even know we wasted it all just to watch you go
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooo
A ghost story is a beautiful movie that represents time very well too
Who needs fancy TH-cam editing when you have Tarkovsky? Inspiring video, as per usual. Thank you sir!
Saw the thumbnail, saw the first frame. Is Nerdwriter going to do a gorgeous monologue with no edits during the candle scene from Nostalgia? You bet he is! :D
Where's the Titanic video, I'm sad I saved it for later.
What a breathtakingly beautiful intro. You’re a genius.
okay so... when he said "distortion" the word's audio was actually distorted and am not sure if that was intentional or just my internet acting up. But sure as hell I loved it lol
While we rightfully praise Tarkovskiy, let's not forget one of the greatest actors of the 20th century. Nobody else could play that part like Oleg Yankovskiy.
"History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul."
NerdWriter, for all the channels I've come across, delivers the best content bar none. Without exception, his video essays--each and every one--invites me to see the world anew. They make life better. Thank you for all you've done, Mr. Puschak.
I experience the shot as long and boring, I remember the shot all at once as short and amazing.
- No good thing can come our from this pandemic
- * nerdwriter releases a video discussing tarkovsky*
- ONE (1) good thing came out from this pandemic
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis :)
I can hear Pink Floyd....."Ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day"
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
@@MrTelephos Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
@@MrTelephos Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
"You become aware of the odd encounter you 're having with Time itself. You can feel the texture of it. It's presence. As if Time were not only a concept. But a substance streching out in front of you, expanding and contracting with every breath. It's beyond interest, beyond boredom."
~ So well put and articulated. Feeling time and not experiencing it must be one of the most rare and difficult things a human can do.
This is very 'Dune'. Dig it
You can't experience without feeling. Experience (the event, not skill, related definition) is created and memorized through feelings.
"You don't come out of a Tarkovsky film with the same perspective of time you had when you went in." Great content Nerdwriter! 🧡 Tarkovsky films inspired me to be present in the moment, that there's no need to rush. Even in the mundane, there are moments worth remembering of.
I love this channel.
Edit: Thinking of movies as a mosaic of time is a beautiful way to put it.
Oh hey youtube was actually nice enough to put this one into my sub box.
Your last 3 videos weren't even though I've been subscribed.
It's always a good day when there's a new Nerdwriter1 upload.
Kyle Kallgren of Brows Held High also did a full video essay over the span of this scene.
2 years ago. It's called Nostalghia Critique.
That was one of the first things I thought about within the first 15 seconds of this video. That video is one of my favorites on this website actually.
Does the nerdwriter know about Kyle’s channel?
Kyle also discussed how this scene has not escaped TH-cam's copyright ID system. Hopefully this one will.
I remember it so you don't have to
@@michelerusso9745 wrong guy
Just... knocked it out of the park. Amazing work.
This guy is without a doubt the best essayist on the platform.
any other recommendations of essay channels?
@@jackieweaver3884 I'm also wondering!!
@@jackieweaver3884 Check out Thomas Flight, very good channel as well.
@@ikstreme3718 thank you for recommending him, he's amazing and painfully underrated!
@@izzygarnelo i know a few i love: Like Stories Of Old, The Closer Look, Screened, Real Dimension Pictures, Lessons from Screenplay, KaptainKristian, Just Write, In Praise Of Shadows, FilmJoy, Every Frame A Painting, The Royal Ocean Film Society, Spikima Movies
How do you do it? How do you outdo yourself every god damn upload? 👏🏻
I’ve watched five hour videos, yet this one somehow feels the longest.
Great video essay, but this sort of thing always makes me realize how different my life was and is from those of others.
"tarkovsky induces a kind of trance" you hit the nail on the head once again! great video as always!
Anyone asking about the titanic video - it's likely a copyright issue (thanks to TH-cam's broken claiming system)
You talking about Tarkovsky, that’s all I needed to make this year better. Thanks dude!
Ps. If you happen to analyze one of his films, specially Stalker, that’ll be amazing
I really don´t understand why you don´t up the production in your channel. You´ve been insipiration for so many creators, and this certainly is not your main focus anymore. Is there any other place where we can see more of your work on a more regular basis? Did you burnout and are taking a break? I mean, there´s 3 million people here waiting for your uploads!
Why the cheesy guitar at the end? I guess the Tarkovsky scene wasn't 'Live, Laugh, Love' enough for you?
Great video! Really enjoyed this one and watched it on 1x speed thankfully
Recently 100%ed "The Witness"... this gave me flashbacks to that annoying cave cinema... but beautiful vid, as usual!
why did you make your Titanic video unavailable in my country
"Τα χρόνια είναι αμέτρητα μα είναι η ζωή μικρή"
Oh! The feeling after watching this video...
Did anyone else watch this film for the first time while playing The Witness?
Guilty. Its strange that both of my introductions into Tarkovsky came from games. The other was S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Yes! I recognized it immediately.
Tarkovsky movies suck
"...the infinity beneath the normal rhythms of life." Just beautiful.
When this shit is over I don't ever wanna hear about it or think about it ever again istg
Then you'll probably learn nothing
Yeah that's silly. You should move forward understanding something
Time is the only thing we have
So, an essay on Mark Fisher's Ghosts of my life and Hauntology when? Haha
Hopefully never
@@nabil5134 heeeey :( that's sad
Tarkovsky was a huge inspiration for my Bachelors Thesis documentary short film. It’s so impressive how these rare moments, where the rhythm is broken, cinema reminds us of how we perceive time.
Edit: typos
EditEdit: typ‘Oh!!’s
Hey! What happened to the Titanic video? I'd been saving it to watch later in the day but was utterly bummed out to find it removed. Is it possible at all that you might reupload?
Vsauce, michael here.
Oh shit a Nerdwriter video! Thanks for letting me know about this one TH-cam /s.
I think this is the inspiration I needed to begin watching Tarkovsky's cinema. Great essay!
Your videos are incredible, I just want to say thank you
God I missed you man, feels good to see you the feed again. Your videos are so artistic: the timing, editing, and writing is always down to perfection. I can’t help but watch them twice to make sure i soaked it all in properly.
watching your videos is a great experience
Probably one of my favorite Nerdwriter episodes yet, and it ends with "I'm working on something I want to focus on" ah okay, I'll be focusing on waiting eagerly.
I keep coming back to this video
Kyle Kallgren, also an amazing scholar and video essayist, does a similar video on Tarkovksy's Nostalghia, and this is what he closes with: "And here I am, still listening to the orders of a maniac, convinced the world was about to end- even though the man was a fool, an abuser, cruel in his neglect. But when you do something long enough, you tend to forget why you started, and eventually it just becomes about the act itself, and the reason why you started becomes unimportant. And you keep going because you're in a constant present, and it's not about memory, or the past or the future, but just about doing the task before you, just about taking the next step, just about staying present in this moment of captured time, keeping the flame burning."
I thought that was some good insight to share here along with this video, as time feels as relative, transient, and persistent as ever. Keep the flame alive, Evan.
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It feels weird to hear the pandemic talked about in the past tense. As far as I know... "It's not over... Nothing is over... You don't just turn it off..."
I guess it's a way to make the video revisitable when the viewer is post pandemic. A period of time that will be infinitely longer than the 1+ year we've already spent inside it. My own frustrations with the works of Tarkovsky aside. I just found it odd that this video assumes the pandemic is over.
You inspired me to make videos on paintings and artworks and that's what I've been doing for the past few years, but wow! I love your videos on filmmakers, cinematography and just overall cultural analysis of contemporary events. Thank you so much Nerdwriter!
Love these video essays.
If a De Chirico painting depicts the world "with a strangeness that forces the viewer to see the familiar with alien eyes", then a Tarkovsky movie depicts the world with a strangeness that forces the viewer to see the alien with familiar eyes.
Nope
Glad I wasn't going crazy. I saw the titanic melodrama episode earlier but didn't watch it and now I wanted to see it but it was gone. Put it back please. Thanks.
This is a truly brilliant video. One of your greatest!
Why is the new titanic video not available in Israel?
Big recommendation on Tarkovsky’s book ‘Sculpting in Time’ if this video interested you
I've tried to get my hands on a hardcopy for years
Being post major pandemic, the commute from my apartment to the school is UNBEARABLE. It feels painfully long
Anyone else get so excited when they see a new Nerdwriter video that you put off watching it for a few days cause you know you’re about to watch something really important and are about to have your perspective changed forever, so you kinda have to brace for it? That’s how this Tarkovsky Pandemic video feels.
And then you have to wait another month or more for another Nerdwriter video when it used to be every week!
Wow as someone who has always has a strange relationship with time, and never fully understood the words to describe what I was experiencing this was such an eye opening video for me its insane. Thank you again Nerdwriter for sharing something so insightful. As someone with adhd I feel like my relationship to time is slightly squewed compared to neurotypical people. This vid helped me understand why I feel that way a little more.
wait i thought this was a cpg gray video the entire time lmao
It's crazy how soviet censors kept Tarkovsky's movies in limited theatres for limited time, even during the Khrushchev Thaw... If it hadn't been for the international audience, specially contemporary directors, who knows what would've happened to his career
I already miss the Titanic video about Melodrama genre 😢
Does anyone know what software he uses to compile and screen record the footage he uses for his videos?
I found myself weaving in and out with my attention. At times I would be focused on the guy and at others on @nerdwriter1
Great video,keep it up!🌏🗻
I'm a guy but when I hear your voice i don't think I'm straight
On one hand, attraction is complicated, and that's ok. On another, were all craving human contact and affection right now and this delivers.
But also, like an ambiguous suggestive asmr channel with him as a narrator? there's a nonzero chance of me subscribing.
No Oxford Comma?
He finally remembered his password.
holy moly i have been struggling with the speedy passing of time so much recently and this just perfectly articulates that feeling!!!!
can someone explain the context of this scene? why does he need to transport the candle?
I'm a simple man, i see nerdwriter...i clic.
I *cliccccccc
How come the new video about Titanic is blocked in my country?
Dear Nerdwriter, if you ever need any translation from Russian or Ukrainian, please let me know, will do that for free. And I am a linguist, fluent in Ukrainian and Russian. Your videos are very thoughtful and inspiring. And resonate with me so so much. Like my favorite painter is Andrew Wyeth and Tarkovsky is my favorite director. Was not ever expecting to see videos related to them on one and the same channel. You are the best!
Do some prison time - its another way to become acutely aware of the way time passes.
I guess it's common for your videos.
But I bet this video is harder to write than to edit.