The Zone: Solaris

Name: The Zone: Solaris
Start: 2024-11-24T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-24T21:00:00-05:00
Location: 325 Rideau Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Ontario K1N 5Y4

Schedule

Sun Nov 24 2024 at 05:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

325 Rideau Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Ontario K1N 5Y4 | Ottawa, ON

Enter “The Zone,” our new regular screening series celebrating arthouse sci-fi in all its weird and wonderful glory! Our first selection is a film called “a strange and beautiful meditation on memory, simulation, and lost love” by the Village Voice.
Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to investigate, he experiences the same strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness. With Solaris, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky created a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself.
Possibly the most emotionally devastating science fiction film ever made, and often described as a Soviet response to Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”, it’s truly an enigmatic work of startling beauty and depth.