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Films by Anton Vidokle + curator talk
1646 x Kunstmuseum Den Haag
On Wednesday 18 March 2026, in collaboration with 1646, two films by Anton Vidokle will be screened at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag: The Communist Revolution Was Caused by the Sun and Citizens of the Cosmos.
The screening will begin with an introduction by Martina Yordanova, curator of the National Gallery of Bulgaria in Sofia, and Vasil Vladimirov, artistic director of KO-OP. Their contribution ties in with the exhibition Irradiation (January 2026) in Sofia and highlights the historical significance of cosmism as a philosophical movement and as a contemporary artistic concept.
Films
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The second part of Vidokle’s trilogy on Cosmist fundamentals, this film explores the poetic dimension of solar cosmology through the research of Soviet biophysicist Alexander Chizhevsky. Shot in Kazakhstan – where Chizhevsky was imprisoned and later exiled – the film introduces his research into the impact of solar emissions on human sociology, psychology, politics, and economics. Aligning the life of post-Soviet rural residents with the futurological projects of Russian cosmism, the film emphasises that the goal of early Soviet breakthroughs aimed at the conquest of outer space was not technical acceleration, but the common cause of humankind in their struggle against limitations of earthly life.
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Based on Alexander Svyatogor’s Biocosmistic Manifesto (1922), this film explores how the influence of Cosmism resonates beyond Russia. Filmed in Tokyo and Kyiv with amateur actors and volunteers, the film depicts a fictional community that embodies desires for immortality, resurrection and interplanetary travel within everyday urban life. With an original soundtrack by Alva Noto, the film reflects on the potential universality of cosmism across diverse cultural contexts.
About Anton Vidokle
Anton Vidokle is an artist, filmmaker, and curator based in New York and Berlin. Since 2014, he has developed an extensive body of films inspired by Cosmism, a 19th-century Russian intellectual movement combining science, mysticism, art, and politics in pursuit of overcoming death and resurrecting all who have lived. His films – shot across Kazakhstan, Siberia, Japan, Italy, and Mesopotamia – blend documentary and fiction, ritual and philosophy, proposing cinema as a site where the dead might speak again and the dream of immortality becomes a collective, planetary task. His major works include the Cosmism trilogy: This Is Cosmos (2014), The Communist Revolution Was Caused by the Sun (2015), and Immortality and Resurrection for All! (2017), as well as Citizens of the Cosmos (2019) and EXODUS (2024).