Béla Tarr, the Time After

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.