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About Nostalghia.com
Nostalghia.com is committed to bringing you the most extensive
information on Andrei Tarkovsky found anywhere on the World Wide Web.
We are dedicated to researching, preserving, and disseminating information related to
the film-making career of Andrei Tarkovsky.
We aim at providing uniquely interesting material, not easily
found elsewhere. This is accomplished by, through our extensive
network of contacts, obtaining
permission from filmmakers, film crew members, authors, editors, researchers,
and photographers to use
and publish their material here. The Webmasters themselves are fluent in several
languages (Russian, German, French, Swedish, Polish, Norwegian,
Danish, English), making possible translation into English material otherwise
only available in foreign languages.
Nostalghia.com
provides all information free of charge, through a simple, fast-loading, no-frills 1990s web
interface, entirely void of "frames," Java applets, Flash/Shockwave, pop-up windows, and
product advertisements. All HTML is hand written—and manually optimized for speed—using the vi simple text editor under Linux/Unix.
Nostalghia.com is an entirely non-commercial site.
All costs incurred are covered by the Webmasters themselves.
Nostalghia.com targets Tarkovsky scholars and devotees, and the emphasis is on content rather than form.
The site is meant as a humble tribute
to Andrei Tarkovsky, arguably one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century.
Nostalghia.com
is a founding member of the Masters of Cinema organization.
The Webmasters wish to thank Andrei Tarkovsky Jr. for personally offering his moral
support to this project. Note, however, that Nostalghia.com is not
endorsed by, licensed by, or affiliated with the Andrei Tarkovsky International Institute (Florence, Italy).
Nostalghia.com is—and will always remain—an "unoffical" Tarkovsky site.
Contacting the Webmasters
All comments, requests, and inquiries pertaining to Nostalghia.com should be directed to Jan and Trond at email address
webmasters[at]nostalghia.com
About Us
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Jan Bielawski
is a Mathematician (differential geometry, gravitation)
with two permanent distractions - computers and film. His first
encounter with Tarkovsky was Solaris which at the time
(1972) didn't impress him as much as Lem's novel. It was Mirror
in 1979 that created a powerful and lasting impression.
Jan is a co-founder of the Masters of Cinema DVD/Blu-ray Series — the European answer to The Criterion Collection.
He can be reached at jan[at]nostalghia.com
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Trond S Trondsen holds a PhD
in Cosmic Geophysics and worked for 20 years as an Auroral Imaging Specialist at the Institute for Space Research, University of Calgary, Canada. He is currently President at Keo Scientific Ltd.
Trond had his beginnings in Tarkovsky in the mid 1980s, while with the Tromsø Filmklubb, a Cinematheque in the university town of Tromsø in arctic Norway. He is also a filmmaker and co-founder of the Masters of Cinema DVD/Blu-ray Series — the European counterpart to The Criterion Collection.
He can be reached at trond[at]nostalghia.com
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Acknowledgments (incomplete)
We acknowledge significant contributions by,
- Dr. Seweryn Kuśmierczyk, Warsaw University
- Mr. Lars-Olof Löthwall and The Swedish Film Institute (SFI)
- Lasse Ulander, Sound Engineer (Offret), Stockholm
Further, we acknowledge numerous contributions by, in alphabetical order,
- Johan Anglemark, Technical Communicator, Uppsala, Sweden
- Alex Asp, Tel-Aviv
- Anna Asp, Production Designer (Offret), Stockholm, Sweden
- Aina Bellis, Stockholm, Sweden
- Daniel Bergman, Director, Stockholm, Sweden
- Maartsis Beerzinjsch, Audio Technician, Latvia
- Dr. Robert Bird, Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- Yevgeny Borzov, Ivanovo, Russia
- Arne Carlsson, Director, Fårösund, Sweden
- Piotr Dabrowski, Warszawa
- Kyril Dambuleff, Frenchtown, NJ, USA
- Peter DeMund, Director, Los Angeles, USA
- Aleksandra Dimitrijevic, Ljubljana
- Kerstin Eriksdotter, Assistant Director (Offret), Stockholm, Sweden
- Henri Fellner, Illustrator, Paris, France
- Dr. Bengt Forslund, Director, Stockholm, Sweden
- Terrance Grace, Writer/Director, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Elisabet Helge, Filmhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
- Jerzy Illg, Editor in Chief, Znak Publishers, Krakow, Poland
- Erland Josephson, Writer/Producer/Director/Actor, Stockholm, Sweden
- R. W. Kirchhoff, Santa Paula, CA, USA
- Thomas Korolewicz, Librarian, Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia
- Pete Lawley, Web Designer, South Wales, U.K.
- Michael Lellouche, Paris, France
- Mikhail Lemkhin, Photographer, San Francisco, USA
- Michal Leszczylowski, Editor (Offret), Stockholm, Sweden
- Krzysztof Marcinkiewicz, Warszawa
- Sean Martin, Director, London, England
- Gregory Meshman, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Dolf Mulder, Theologian, Westervoort, The Netherlands
- Leonard Neuger, Professor in Polish, Skogas, Sweden
- Sven Nykvist, Photographer, Stockholm, Sweden
- Sven E. Olsson, Film Critic, Ödsmål, Sweden
- Mary Prlain, Director/Producer, New York City, USA
- Keith Rose, Director, Orlando, Florida, USA
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film Critic, Chicago, USA
- Kimitoshi Sato, Writer, Saitama, Japan
- Michael J. Schwalm, Frankfurt
- Carlos Soares, Portugal
- Wayne Spencer, Civil Servant and Writer, Yorkshire, U.K.
- Ute Spengler, Translator, Switzerland
- David Stringari, Artist, Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S.A.
- Olga Surkova, Film Critic, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Andrei Tarkovsky Jr., Filmmaker, Florence, Italy
- Martin M Vardanov, Writer/Director, Hollywood, U.S.A.
- Per-Erik Wallin, Filmhuset, Stockholm
- Burkhard Walther, Photographer, Germany
- Nicholas Wrigley, Musician, England
- Gregory Young, Consultant, Melbourne, Australia
- Mike Zuev, Moscow
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