Sisyphus and Solaris : Camus, Tarkovsky and Absurd Creation
“‘Art and nothing but art’, said Nietzsche, ‘we have art in order not to die from the truth’” The Myth of Sisyphus Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 cinematic tour de force Solaris (based on Stanislaw Lem’s novel of the same name) boasts a reputation of being no less than one of the greatest science-fiction films… Keep Reading