This Is Cosmos (2014)
Overview
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.”
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Additional Info
Budget | $0.00 |
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Revenue | $0.00 |
Original Language | ru |
Popularity | 0.405 |
Directed By
Anton Vidokle
Crew
Anton Vidokle
John Cale
Marcello Bozzini
Meggie Schneider
Anton Vidokle
Carsten Nicolai
Anton Vidokle
Nikolai Fedorov
Anastasia Ryabova
Gleb Napreenko
Liza Babenko
Jochen Jezussek
Patrik Metzger
Ilja Köster
Tisha Mukarji
Boris Groys
Ilya Kabakov
Hu Fang
Hito Steyerl
Brian Kuan Wood
Trevor Paglen
Kate Fowle
Maria Hlavajova
Tony Conrad
Anselm Franke
Rivers Plasketes