(This Is Cosmos)

Content: 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.”

Countries:

Germany,

Lebanon,

Russia,

United States of America,

Kazakhstan

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

30 minutes

Year:

2014

Directors:

Anton Vidokle

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Production companies:

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

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Crews:

Director

Music

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ADR Recordist

Cinematography