Cosmographies

Cosmographies (2024)

Science FictionDocumentary

Maori astrobiologist Xuê Noon (Victoria Hunt) finds solace in Mars in 2051 as a leader from the Aotearoa Space Agency on an international scientific mission, following the discovery of dormant microorganisms by the NASA Mars Sample Return Mission in 2039. Xuê wanders across this sentient planet and reflects on the newly found lifeforms as she grows plants in a glasshouse. Through the spirit of an ancient taniwha, she slipstreams in spacetime to the Atacama Desert in 2023 where she lived as an Indigenous scientist years earlier. In Atacama the film engages with numerous ongoing life-and-death struggles for land and water justice led by Indigenous communities, activists, and scientists in this old, vital yet scarred desert. Through interviews and conversations, the film depicts centuries old and ongoing forms of social injustice and ecological degradation to weave a critical allegory against the renewed commercial impulse of a new space age rampaging in the 2020's.

Director: Juan Francisco Salazar

Casts

	Victoria Hunt as Xuê Noon
	Adriana Aránguiz as Participant
	Jimena Cruz Mamani as Participant
	Rudecindo Christian Espíndola as Participant
	Félix Galleguillos Aymani as Participant
	Edith Parra Espíndola as Participant
	José Sánchez as Participant
	Camilo Sanzana as Participant
	Elizabeth Tejerina as Participant
	Millarca Valenzuela as Participant
	Flora Vilches as Participant
	Waiaria Page Macedone-Hunt as Participant

Crew