Open Shelf Films February 20, 2009

Stalker
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
163 minutes

Open Shelf Films on Fridays offers screenings of films that have influenced exhibiting artists. February's films are selected by Jonas Burgert. Set in what appears to be a post-apocalyptic future, the eerie and unsettling story focuses on the title character, Stalker, who leads characters known only as the Writer and the Scientist into a mysterious region called The Zone. Tarkovsky films their journey as a long odyssey, or religious pilgrimage, and center of The Zone is where each of these men hopes to find a kind of personal transcendence.

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