Tarkovsky famously rejected the hyper-interpretation to which the Zone in his 1979 film Stalker has been routinely subject by critics. Taking this as an invitation to approach the Zone as just a portion of space, I find that it confronts us with a space in motion that acts as an operator of change rather than its measure. I show that this breaks away from the modern construction of space as an inert and external container in which nature is set. As the Zone reconfigures our way of thinking about space– ontologically, epistemologically, and politically– I hope to join current efforts to rethink the key concepts of western modernity in light of the Anthropocene