Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

In conjunction with Ralph Lemon's performances (Oct 7–9), we present this rare screening of Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky, which has profoundly influenced Lemon's work. Based on the science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem, it is the story of Cosmonaut Kris Kelvin, who is dispatched to a space station orbiting the mysterious planet Solaris. The scientists discover an alien intelligence of the ocean-covered planet, which is able to materialize anyone from the past. Kelvin must face his dead wife, and again confront the division between them which drove her to a suicide. (1972, 167 min, 35mm archival print)