Anton Vidokle Special Screening, St Petersburg, November, 2021

Since 2013, Anton Vidokle has been working on a series of films about the philosophy of Russian Cosmism. To date, this series includes the film trilogy “Immortality for All”, as well as ”Citizens of the Cosmos” and “Autotrofia”. Part historical research and part scripted fiction, these films evoke central desires of cosmism — rejuvenation, emancipation, universalism and transformation of living and dead matter — and enact them in the context of ordinary life in various parts of Russia, Japan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Italy, and other locations. Employing a diverse cast of characters including amateur and professional actors, taxi drivers, museum guards, artists, farmers, scientists, dancers, librarians and many others, these films often function as educational experiments, both for the participants as well as the eventual audience.

Program

Anton Vidokle, Immortality for All: A Film Trilogy on Russian Cosmism, Kazakhstan / Germany / Russia / USA 2014–17, DCP, colour, sound, 96 min, Russian with English subtitles.

Anton Vidokle, Citizens of the Cosmos, USA / Japan / Ukraine 2019, HD video, color, sound, 30 min, Japanese with English subtitles.

Anton Vidokle 

Artist and editor of e-flux journal. He was born in 1965 in Moscow, USSR, and lives in New York, USA, and Berlin, Germany. His work has been exhibited internationally at such venues and art festivals as Venice Biennale (Italy), Documenta (Kassel, Germany), Bergen Assembly (Norway), Shanghai Biennale (China), Istanbul Biennial (Turkey), Berlinale International Film Festival (Germany), Center Pompidou (Paris, France), Tate Modern (London, UK), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia), and others.