Solaris II
I am a product of the planet Solaris (Sea of Consciousness), and my body was entangled in countless apparitions of myself on the space station, and I collapsed and committed suicide. I took his place and returned to his home planet, living a life of isolation in order to avoid revealing my identity. I tried to understand the ancient civilizations of the earth as well as the sea creatures, which were so primitive and strange. I looked out on the dock over a sea of unconscious, tasteless, but there were a lot of active individual consciousnesses here, they were all beings, with their own language and private emotions. I couldn't get close to them, so I fell into a sea of inner misery, and I could only wander in the empty Monastery. I took a ferry to three border islands, and above the vast sea, I met Cthulhu, the ruler of the primeval earth. I slept alone like Cthulhu, and in my dreams I merged with Solaris again.
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Vincent ChaiDirectorBeing a star,Solaris II
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Vincent ChaiWriterLove Actually
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Dany ZangProducerMurder of cosmic strings
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Shirley ChaiKey Cast"Daughter"Being a star
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Project Type:Short
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Runtime:19 minutes 17 seconds
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Completion Date:October 27, 2024
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Production Budget:2,000 CNY
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Country of Origin:China
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Country of Filming:China
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Language:Chinese
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Film Color:Black & White and Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Beijing
China
November 1, 2024
The 6th Blue Planet Sci-Fi Film Festival
Vincent Chai Screenwriter and director, represented works "The Heaven of White Clouds" won the Xia Yan Cup Script Award in2019, "Lovers in the Superstring" won the Creative Award for New Forces in Chinese Film and Television, "I Am Not Li Bai won the Film Script Award at the First Asian Chinese Language Film Festival, and "The Ghost's Quantum Leap in the Age of Steam" won the Star Award at 2023 Chengdu World Science Fiction Convention. In 2020, he signed with Taomeng Xinghuo Plan, Visualbo, and the Digital Library of Chinese National Culture. In 2023, he directed the suspense science fiction short film "Becoming a Star", was nominated in the short film unit at the 13th Beijing International Online Film Exhibition.
"Solaris 2" tells the story of an extraterrestrial hyperspace entity's journey to Earth, revealing the imaginary world of the other, like a poetic ebb and flow, a soul-stirring jazz piece. The film features black-and-white silent film, vintage style, stream of consciousness, and Cthulhu, with formal and ontological aesthetics intertwined. The intertextuality of the sea of consciousness and the light of the other shore, the meeting, fusion, and symbiosis of divine civilization and ordinary people, Zen philosophy and the contemplation of emptiness, the ultimate destination of stars and life, all culminate in a dream where they are elevated and return to the state of nirvana.