This Is Cosmos

Synopsis

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.”

Main Cast

Iman Musa Kulmohhametov

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Svetlana Lyahova

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Anton Vidokle
Sound	Music	John Cale
	Sound Recordist	Tisha Mukarji
	Music Editor	Carsten Nicolai
	Sound Mixer	Jochen Jezussek
	ADR Recordist	Ilja Köster
Production	Researcher	Gleb Napreenko Liza Babenko Anastasia Ryabova
Crew	Thanks	Rivers Plasketes Maria Hlavajova Anselm Franke Hito Steyerl Tony Conrad Ilya Kabakov Trevor Paglen Boris Groys Hu Fang Kate Fowle Brian Kuan Wood
	Cinematography	Marcello Bozzini
Editing	Editor	Anton Vidokle Meggie Schneider
	Color Grading	Patrik Metzger
Writing	Story	Nikolai Fedorov
	Writer	Anton Vidokle
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