This Is Cosmos (2014)
Movie
Based on the ideas of Russian philosopher, Nikolai Fedorov, Anton Vidokle’s film was shot in Siberia, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. Fedorov, like others, believed that death was a mistake, “because the energy of cosmos is indestructible, because true religion is a cult of ancestors, because true social equality is immortality for all.” Fedorov was one of the Cosmo-Immortalists, a surge of thinkers that emerged in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They linked Western Enlightenment with Russian Orthodoxy and Eastern philosophical traditions, as well as Marxism, to create an idiosyncratically concrete metaphysics. For the Russian cosmists, cosmos did not mean outer space: rather, they wanted to create “cosmos” on earth. “To construct a new reality, free of hunger, disease, violence, death, need, inequality – like communism.”
Directed By : Anton Vidokle
Genres : Documentary
Status : Released
Released : Jan 1, 2014
Length : 30 minutes
Crew
- Director : Anton Vidokle
- Music : John Cale
- Thanks : Boris Groys
- Thanks : Maria Hlavajova
- Thanks : Brian Kuan Wood
- Thanks : Tony Conrad
- Thanks : Rivers Plasketes
- Writer : Anton Vidokle
- Cinematography : Marcello Bozzini
- Music Editor : Carsten Nicolai
- ADR Recordist : Ilja Köster
- Story : Nikolai Fedorov
- Sound Recordist : Tisha Mukarji
- Editor : Meggie Schneider
- Sound Mixer : Jochen Jezussek
- Thanks : Ilya Kabakov
- Thanks : Hu Fang
- Thanks : Anselm Franke
- Editor : Anton Vidokle
- Thanks : Trevor Paglen
- Color Grading : Patrik Metzger
- Researcher : Anastasia Ryabova
- Thanks : Hito Steyerl
- Thanks : Kate Fowle
- Researcher : Gleb Napreenko
- Researcher : Liza Babenko