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Dr. Leonid Rogozov operating himself to remove his appendix in Antarctica

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Films stills from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris, 1972

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In Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Solaris, some scientists are studying an oceanic planet. Their techniques are typically scientific. But the ocean is itself an intelligence which is studying them in turn. It experiments on the experimenters by returning their own memories to them in the form of hallucinations, perfect in every detail, in which people from their pasts appear in the present and must be related to once again, maybe in a new way. I think this was a very precise metaphor for, among many other things, the interrelation between liquid intelligence and optical intelligence in photography, or in technology as a whole. In photography, the liquids study us, even from a great distance.