Mine over matter

Cornwall mines warning poster.

Previously on Barnflakes:
Corn + Wall = Cornwall
Padstow's 'Obby 'Oss
Beauty and the Brutalist exhibition
Barnflakes goes Cornwall
Celebrating Cornwall's mining heritage
Notes on Cornish fiction 

Spilling the beans

Spilt coffee on the steps of Goldsmiths University, London.

Water in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky

Water in the films of Tarkovsky (other motifs in his films include fire, dogs and horses) always looks so lush and inviting (when it doesn't include falling masonry). Characters in his films rarely change to bathe – they usually go into the water fully-clothed. His water is often subterranean and where it shouldn’t be; an abandoned building, a leaking ceiling (sometimes in a dream or fantasy sequence). Whatever its context, I always want to be in it. The camera lingers on it, zooms into it, characters stare at it, verdant underwater plants dance in it. Only the animated films of Studio Ghibli come close to showing the beauty of water.

From top to bottom: two from Stalker; Andrei Rublev; Mirror; Nostalgia; The Sacrifice; two from Solaris