Offret

The sixth episode of Space Aphorisms discovers the house-landscape in Offret (or O Sacríficio,
in the Portuguese translation), Andrei Tarkovskij’s last movie, filmed entirely in Sweden and
1986. The house-landscape is a cinematographic construction that reveals, however,
the different interactions between the house and the surrounding landscape,
reflecting, at the same time, the relationship between the self (as an expression of an inner experience, which can be
through philosophy, art or religion – and throughout the film all these different ways of experiencing spirituality appear.
different ways of experiencing spirituality) and the outside world.

Reading of the excerpt from Offret: Ricardo Vaz Trindade

Credits:
Images: Photograms from Offret, by Andrei Tarkovskij. Director of photography: Sven Nykvist.
Music: “Fear is not your Enemy”, from No Words Left, 2021.

Program on the poetics of architecture. While the philosophical aphorism seeks to express a truth, the literary aphorism is characterized by its expressiveness. The program aims to highlight this poetic dwelling that the word provides, referring it to the relationship of spaces and bodies with life.