Immortality and Resurrection for All Anton Vidokle, 2017

The last film in Vidokles trilogy on Cosmism is a meditation on a museum as the site of resurrection a central idea for many Cosmist thinkers, scientists and avantgarde artists. Filmed at the State Tretiyakov Gallery, 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 Fedorov on this subject in 1880s. The film follows a cast comprised of presentday followers of Fedorov, several actors, artists and a Pharaoh Hound that playfully enact a resurrection of a mummy, a close examination of Malevich Black Square, Rodchenkos spatial constructions, taxidermied animals, artifacts of the Russian Revolution, skeletons, mannequins in tableau vivantlike scenes, in order to create a contemporary visualization for the poetry implicit in Fedorovs writings.