Anton Vidokle: The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun
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Esker Foundation 444-1011 9 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0H7
Anton Vidokle, "The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun," 2015
still photo, courtesy of the artist.
Opening reception: Saturday, May 27, 6-10pm
The second film of Anton Vidokle’s trilogy on Russian cosmism looks at the poetic dimension of solar cosmology of Soviet biophysicist, Alexander Chizhevsky. Shot in Kazakhstan, where Chizhevsky was imprisoned and later exiled, the film introduces Сhizhevsky’s research into the impact of solar emissions on human sociology, psychology, politics and economics in the form of wars, revolutions, epidemics and other upheavals. The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun aligns the life of post-soviet rural residents and the futurological projects of Russian cosmism to emphasize that the goal of the early Soviet breakthroughs aimed at the conquest of outer space was not so much technical acceleration, but the common cause of humankind in their struggle against limitations of earthly life.
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