Immortality and Resurrection For All!

Immortality and Resurrection For All! (2017)

Documentary

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.

Director: Anton Vidokle

Casts

	Arseny Zhiliaev as
	Ekaterina Morozova as
	Anna Akimova as
	Valeriy Borisov as
	Anastasia Gacheva as
	Anna Gorskaya as
	Oleg Zaytsev as
	Elena Knorre as
	Pavel Kostikov as
	Mikhail Marusev as
	Alexandr Marusev as
	Boris Rezhabek as
	Pavel Filonenko as
	Petr Ribalko as
	Tatyana Ermilova as
	Antonina Medvedeva as
	Vasily Berezin as
	Yulia Maksimova as
	Alexandr Gavrilov as
	Yana Sharaeva as
	Darya Vyatkina as

Crew