SGS Summer Film Festival: Solaris
Stanford Global Studies Division
As part of the virtual Stanford Global Studies Summer Film Festival, join us from the comfort of your home as we watch films from around the world that focus on the theme “Common Worlds, Limitless Realities: Futurism and Fantasy in Global Cinema.”
The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) invites you to watch Solaris from home at a time that works for your schedule, then join us on Zoom for a post-screening discussion with Sierra Nota, Stanford University. The film is available on YouTube and available for rent on Amazon.
About the Film
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1972).
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. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions. View the trailer here.
Sierra Nota is a doctoral candidate in history at Stanford University. Sierra’s dissertation explores the economic, cultural, artistic and social values of political power through Mezhyhirya, a 360-acre estate north of Kyiv, from the dissolution of the Cossack Hetmanate to the fall of Yanukovych. More generally, she is interested in questions of sovereignty and national thought in Kyiv during the Soviet period. Prior to coming to Stanford, she recieved her B.A., summa cum laude, from Harvard University.