<Tr> <Th> Pages </Th> <Td> 228pp . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 9780857861665 </Td> </Tr> <P> Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room is a 2012 book by Geoff Dyer . </P> <P> The book is a discussion by Dyer of the film Stalker directed by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1979 . The title is taken from the mysterious and enigmatic Zone which is a locus within the film itself . The work is based on a close, scene - by - scene reading with a large number of digressions, including autobiographical discussions such as the time and place where Dyer watched the film (and observations of how his own perspective has changed over time - for example he declares that as he has aged he has grown less and less concerned with trying to find a definite answer to what the film as a whole' means'). The first time that he saw the film was in his early 20s having just finished his education in English literature at Oxford University . In part, therefore, the work is a meditation on time and how it changes our perspective on the world as a whole and on particular cultural artefacts and works of art . This is apposite, since one of Tarkovsky's most central preoccupations was that of time (he called his book on the process of making films Sculpting in Time). Dyer refers to the long drawing - out of takes by Tarkovsky as being a manifestation of' Tarkovsky time' . </P>

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