This Is Cosmos (2014)
30m
Running Time
January 1, 2014Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

Iman Musa Kulmohhametov

Svetlana Lyahova

Anton Vidokle
Director / Writer / Editor

John Cale
Music

Boris Groys
Thanks

Maria Hlavajova
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Brian Kuan Wood
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Tony Conrad
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Rivers Plasketes
Thanks

Marcello Bozzini
Cinematography

Carsten Nicolai
Music Editor

Ilja Köster
ADR Recordist

Nikolai Fedorov
Story

Tisha Mukarji
Sound Recordist

Meggie Schneider
Editor

Jochen Jezussek
Sound Mixer

Ilya Kabakov
Thanks

Hu Fang
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Anselm Franke
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Trevor Paglen
Thanks

Patrik Metzger
Color Grading

Anastasia Ryabova
Researcher

Hito Steyerl
Thanks

Kate Fowle
Thanks

Gleb Napreenko
Researcher
