Andrei Tarkovsky's first image in his debut film was a child standing by a young tree; the last image in his final film is a child lying at the foot of a dead tree. Chris Marker has crafted a cinematic psalm to Tarkovsky in this absorbing documentary on the aesthetics, evocations, and sensibilities of one of the greatest cinema stylists of all time. Marker's cinema essay transports the viewer into Tarkovsky's films and uses two video shoots-a visit to the settings of Sacrifice, and a video edited on Tarkovsky's deathbed as a testimony to his work. With short: Scarecrow (Alexander Kott, Russia, 1999): A simple story with haunting ambient sound set amidst the desolation of the Russian Steppes. (15 mins)