Immortality and Resurrection For All!
01/09/2017
1h



The last film in Vidokle's trilogy on Cosmism is a meditation on the museum as the site of resurrection-a central idea for many Cosmist thinkers, scientists and avant-garde artists. Filmed at the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Zoological Museum, The Lenin Library, and the Museum of Revolution, the film looks at museological and archival techniques of collection, restoration and conservation as a means of the material restoration of life, following an essay penned by Nikolai Federov on this subject in the 1880s. The film follows a cast comprised of present-day followers of Federov, several actors, artists and a Pharaoh Hound that playfully enact a resurrection of a mummy, a close examination of Malevich's Black Square, Rodchenko's spatial constructions, taxidermied animals, artifacts of the Russian Revolution, skeletons, and mannequins in tableau vivant-like scenes, in order to create a contemporary visualization of the poetry implicit in Federov's writings.
Cast
Arseny Zhiliaev
Ekaterina Morozova
Anna Akimova
Valeriy Borisov
Anastasia Gacheva
Anna Gorskaya
Oleg Zaytsev
Elena Knorre
Pavel Kostikov
Mikhail Marusev
Alexandr Marusev
Boris Rezhabek
Pavel Filonenko
Petr Ribalko


Tatyana Ermilova


Antonina Medvedeva
Vasily Berezin
Yulia Maksimova
Alexandr Gavrilov
Yana Sharaeva
Darya Vyatkina
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