Hello everybody welcome back to Rev Left Radio. I am Brett O'Shea and today I am

going to share on our feed an episode re-recorded with Evan from Left of the Projector and Amanda who is a recurrent guest on Left of the Projector.

Evan, Amanda, and I sat down to discuss the Soviet filmmaker Andre Tarkovsky's famous

Sci-Fi slash anti-Sifi film Solaris. I believe it's from the 1970s, kind of an old film. Some of you might

have already seen it, some of you might not have. You can listen to this

episode without having seen it and still get a lot out of it.

Of course we would encourage people to check out the film and then come back and listen to

this episode as well or listen to this episode first and then check out the film,

whatever, but it's a great film and I think we had a really truly

wonderful discussion and even in the prep for the this episode you know I was

listening to different analyses from different people reading essays etc.

And there's lots of good stuff out there on Tarkovsky's film because he's

famous artistic director.

But I still feel that in the course of this conversation there's some genuinely sort of unique analysis that I didn't find

anywhere else and it just came up sort of organically in our discussion so I'm quite proud of this

episode it touches on a lot of aspects beyond politics and beyond mere filmmaking that the human

condition gets explored quite a bit in Tarkovsky's film as well as in this conversation

about it. And of course this conversation about it.

And of course this was a collaboration with Left of the Projector.

So I'm on as a sort of guest.

And of course, Left of the Projector put it out on their feed.

A few days ago, we're going to put it out publicly on our

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