Solaris Mon Amour

dir. Kuba Mikurda / 2023 / Poland / 47min.
A trance-like, personal story about loss, mourning & memory. The film consists of excerpts from 70 educational films and radio adaptations of „Solaris” from the 1960s.

An extraordinary found footage documentary inspired by Stanisław Lems Solaris. A trance-like, personal story about loss, mourning & memory. The film consists of excerpts from 70 films produced by the Educational Film Studio in Lodz in the 1960s and the first radio adaptations of "Solaris". Lem begins writing Solaristhe same year that Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amouris releasedsays Kuba Mikurda Like Resnais' film, I find Solarisa fascinating study of post-traumatic memory repressed memories that pave their way into consciousness and demand to be expressed.

duration:
47 min
country / year of production:
Poland / 2023
director:
Kuba Mikurda
producer:
Dagna Kidoń, Krzysztof Franek, Krzysztof Pijarski / The Educational Film Studio, The Polish National Film School in Lodz
selected festivals and awards:
2023 – MDAG Warsaw: Polish premiere
sections:
THE POWER OF WORDS
competitions:
Best Polish Film Award
tags:
Polish films art literature fiction / non-fiction

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