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Kubrick

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Editorial composition divided between 2001 and Solaris, with a monolith, an oceanic planet and a projection room.

May 20, 2026

2001, Solaris and the Cinema of Impossible Contact

Two films suggest that extraterrestrial contact is not chiefly a technical problem but a philosophical one: how do we speak to what resists understanding?

first contact Kubrick Tarkovsky Solaris science fiction