From Almanac of the Fall (1984) to The Turin Horse (2011), Béla Tarr’s films have traced the crumbling of communist ideals.
But the time that came after is a heterogeneous and dark time of people who no longer believe in anything. It is a time of material events that measure our faith, insofar as life supports it; a time where historical events, victories, and defeats are of much less interest to us then the fabric of time that they are made of. This book is a unique retrospective exploration of the work of the great Hungarian filmmaker and a manifesto for Jacques Rancière’s theory of film.
Béla Tarr, the Time After is part of Garage Screen, a series of books about film.
