Age rating: 12A
Content warnings: Mild sex and nudity, mild violence and gore, moderate frightening scenes
Running time: 2hrs 47 mins
The School for the Creative and Cultural Industries is delighted to present the latest screening of the SCCI Cinema Club. Victor Buchli, Professor of Material Culture within the Material Culture Group at UCL, has selected Solaris (1972) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, which we will be showing on 35mm film.
Taking place at the One Pool Street Cinema at UCL East, SCCI Cinema Club is a series of free screenings, sharing the films that have inspired and influenced researchers, artists, and practitioners across our creative community.
About the film
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. The film is an adaptation of Stanisław Lem's 1968 philosophical science-fiction novel.
The Guardian hails it as the sixth best science fiction films of all time, saying: “After the usual labyrinthine negotations with the Soviet authorities over the script, what emerged was a space film unlike anything before or since. Lem's novel posited the existence of solaristics; the study of an outlying star system that had bizarre effects on human psychology. Tarkovsky took this idea, and turned it into a dreamlike interrogation of faith, memory and the transfiguring power of love.”
The BBC says: “it’s a haunting piece of cinema. It's also a moving meditation on humanity, love and the unknowable nature of the universe.”
UCL East Community Cinema
This screening is part of the UCL East Community Cinema, a series of free screenings on Wednesday evenings with films specially selected by our students, academics and community partners. Check out the other films we're screening.
