2023 | Poland | Documentary,Experimental

Solaris Mon Amour

  • 47 mins
  • Director | Kuba Mikurda

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

A found footage documentary inspired by Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris". A trance-like, personal story about loss, mourning and memory. The film consists of excerpts from films produced by the Educational Film Studio in Lodz in 1960s.

The same year that Alain Resnais’s masterpiece Hiroshima mon amour was released, science fiction writer and theorist StanisÅ‚aw Lem began writing his influential novel Solaris, an artistic confluence that inspires this wholly original and emotionally resonant found footage film, which underscores the theme of post-traumatic memory that informs both texts. Mikurda, editor Laura Pawela, and composer/sound designer Marcin Lenarczyk bring together clips from 70 films produced by the Educational Film Studio in Lodz in the 1960s, as well as the first radio adaptations of Solaris, to create an entrancing, spectral incantation of loss, mourning, and memory.  (Museum of Moving Image)

 

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