The Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, a deliberate and painstaking artist, went to great lengths to include in his late work Stalker, almost as its centrepiece, an elaborately composed tracking shot – a camera movement that captured many …

Haydn in the outback

During the year or so I spent recently as a correspondent in Iraq and the wider Middle East, I found myself often in the vicinity of holy places - temples from the Hellenistic era, early churches, Umayyad mosques and desert sanctuaries, mosaic-floored …

The idea of the north

Karel Kupka in north Australia