Date of Publication : May

Abstract: This paper aims to delineate transmediality of adapting poetry into a cinematic narrative. Through a narratological analysis, an Enquiry into how Andrei Tarkovsky with the use of his film "Zerkalo" or Mirror (1975), successfully transfers chronotopic data from the orthographic medium to the cinematic medium. The paper highlights the central motif of chronotopic representation of memory and its relation to autobiographical elements in the film. It goes on to explore the challenges faced by the cinematic medium under the contemporary challenges of commodification of art and the subversion of state as a narrator by Andrei Tarkovsky through Sculpting in time sans chronological coherence. The paper goes on to discuss the extensive use poetic logic over cinematic narrative causality. Ultimately, this study aims to reaffirm the relevance of Tarkovsky's "Zerkalo" in content-saturated contemporary times and discuss the paradox of a cinematic narrative being more of a poem than cinema itself.

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