Solaris Mon Amour – An extraordinary found footage documentary inspired by Stanisław Lem’s 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 Łódź in the 1960s and the first radio adaptations of Solaris. “Lem begins writing Solaris the same year that Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour is released” – says Kuba Mikurda. “Like Resnais’ film, I find Solaris a fascinating study of post-traumatic memory – repressed memories that pave their way into consciousness and demand to be expressed.
Kuba Mikurda – film director & film scholar. He has worked as a film critic, journalist and publisher. In 2018, he made his film debut, a feature-length documentary Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk and in 2021 Escape to the Silver Globe which won three awards at the Millennium Docs Against Gravity festival, an award from the Polish Filmmakers Association at the Man in Danger festival, and was nominated for the Polish Film Award Eagles 2022 in the categories of Best Documentary and Best Editing. He teaches at the Film School in Łódź & hosts the podcast Director’s Cut.