Hey everyone. Welcome back to Rev Lift Radio. On today's episode we are double

releasing an episode that I was a guest on on the podcast the left of the

projector with Evan we also had another guest Amanda so Evan and Amanda and I

tackled a few months ago we tackled Solaris by Tarkovsky, Andre Tarkovsky, the Soviet filmmaker

and this time around we decided to tackle another one of his films, The Stalker.

And so Evan invited me and Amanda on left of the projector to have a

discussion or second discussion on a Tarkovsky film is really fascinating. I

highly encourage people to check out these films obviously having watched the film or having some

understanding of Tarkovsky will help in digesting this episode but we also just

touch on deeply human themes that anybody can relate to regardless of whether or

not you watch the film.

I do encourage people to watch these films, I think for many reasons, but one of the reasons

is that, you know, engaging with these really deep artistic films that are incredibly long is I think a way to also

reclaim our attention spans which are so scattered in today's hyper-digital social media

environment in which we're constantly

scrolling and getting hit after hit of dopamine and you know hardly able to get

through a movie even a regular hour 20 movie these days without checking our phone compulsively and Andre Tarkovsky

his films really test us and so you know one of the ways that you can reclaim your

attention is like deep reading or meditation and I think another way is watching films like this

These deeply artistic atmospheric reflective films that are not here to constantly entertain but are here to

bring you on an artistic journey and Tarkovsky does that just about as well as

anyone that I'm aware of so great film great conversation I hope you enjoy it. And before we get into the episode I also want to remind

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