Abstract
abstract: In science fiction films involving space travel, the face is often linked aesthetically and conceptually not only with the flat surface of the screen interface but also the spherical environments of the helmet, the spacecraft, and the planetary atmosphere. I explore the relations between eye, face, and screen in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 and its successors, showing how they use facial-optical motifs to mediate encounters between human subjectivity and unfathomable otherness. Ultimately, investigating the ethical dimensions of space exploration cinema's aesthetics of roundness, I argue that recent films display a turning inward and a contraction of both ethical and ontological spheres.
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