"Mary Poppins Cameo Appearance in the Works of Andrei Tarkovsky" by art group Disinformation (headphones recommended). The film was edited in January 2000, and a detailed account of this Disinformation project can be found in the New York art magazine "Cabinet", issue 3, summer 2001..."Jane and Michael sat at the window waiting for Mr Banks to come home, and listening to the sound of the East Wind blowing through the branches of the cherry trees in the Lane. The trees themselves, turning and bending in the half light, looked as though they had gone mad and were dancing their roots out of the ground. "There he is!" said Michael, pointing suddenly to a shape that banged heavily against the gate. Jane peered through the gathering darkness. "That's not Daddy", she said. "It's someone else"..."The facts of Mary Poppins story were described in PL Travers' biography [1], and popularised by Robert Stevenson's well-known documentary film [2]. What is less well known is Mary Poppin's cinematic cameo, fifteen years later, above the concrete shells and twisted steel, rusting mechanised corpses which littered the sinister, irradiated Zone of Andrei Tarkovsky's dystopian masterpiece "Stalker" [3]. The Stalker turns to his companions and warns "listen, if you suddenly notice something, or even feel something strange, just turn right back". Mary's brief fly-past, just out of shot, whips up a tail wind as she makes haste, carried by the East Wind, to attend urgent engagements elsewhere in the then Soviet Union. Her un-nerving presence registers only in the disturbed motion of the leaves and long grass, and in the panicked reactions of the film's hyperacutic protagonists"...Events described in "Mary Poppins" and "Stalker" relate to a hypothesis proposed by Donald Tuzin, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, that "certain hitherto unnoticed (sic) links exist between the auditory apparatus and a particular sensation that is widely interpreted as signifying a supernatural presence" [4]; that "a certain type of naturally occurring sound has a perceptual effect on some, possibly many, species that is intrinsically mysterious and thus anxiety-arousing... this sensation is humanly interpreted and its anxiety cognitively resolved by referring it to the mystery that is allegedly inherent in the supernatural realm".[1] Peter Davies 1934 [2] Walt Disney 1964 [3] Mosfilm 1979 [4] Donald Tuzin "Miraculous Voices" Current Anthropology 1984This film is a totally non-commercial production which is intended as a homage to the creative genius of PL Travers and Andrei Tarkovsky.Viewers are stongly encouraged to buy the complete "Stalker" http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stalker-Aleks... and "Mary Poppins" http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mary-Poppins-... DVDs. Details of other Disinformation projects can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMtz9c...

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