“Since the arrival of the Great Pandemic, I see Andrei Tarkovsky’s obsession with the apocalypse in a wholly different light. I clearly remember the magnetic mental force of the outbreak in spring 2020 as I witnessed the unfolding of a true event: my whole life I had been waiting for this moment.”
Notes on the Apocalypse by fellow Vandalooper Hannes Schumacher was published with Berfrois.
“As the Zen master Dōgen says, a blurry vision is the vision of the enlightened. Our time is the new age of techno Buddhism in which even the question of life or extinction will be ultimately blurred, as we slowly return to the original state of chaos before the actual creation of the world.”
