Shokouk: A Cosmicomedy in Four Acts
TITLE
Shokouk: A Cosmicomedy in Four Acts
DIRECTOR
Rouzbeh Akhbari, Felix Kalmenson
COUNTRY
Uzbekistan
YEAR
2023
DURATION
17′
GENRE
Video Art & Experimental
Shokouk: A Cosmicomedy in Four Acts
Shokouk: A Cosmicomedy in Four Acts is a transhistorical hybrid documentary that traces a polyphony of characters, sites and encounters related to infrastructures of space travel and cosmic imaginaries. Following a vertiginous narrative connecting various cosmic machinations from the 12th century Persianate world to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the present moment, the film weaves historical facts and archival fabulations, and questions our common perceptions of time and space.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Rouzbeh Akhbari, Felix Kalmenson
Rouzbeh Akhbari is an artist working in video installation and film based between Toronto and Lisbon. His practice is research-driven and usually exists at the intersections of storytelling, political ecology, critical border studies, and human geography. Felix Kalmenson is an artist and filmmaker. Kalmenson’s work variably narrates the liminal space of a researcher’s and artist’s encounter with landscape and archive.
- DirectorRouzbeh Akhbari, Felix Kalmenson
- ScreenplayRouzbeh Akhbari, Felix Kalmenson
- Cinematography Sadriddin Shahobiddinov
- Cast
- EditingFelix Kalmenson and Rouzbeh Akhbari
- Producer/s Felix Kalmenson, Rouzbeh Akhbari, Foziljon Yunusov
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project TitleShokouk: A Cosmicomedy in Four Acts
- Project TypeVideo Art & Experimental
- Completion Date 1 January 2023
- Country of originUzbekistan
- Country of filmingUzbekistan
- LanguageEnglish, Kazakh, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Uzbek
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Rouzbeh Akhbari, Felix Kalmenson
Rouzbeh Akhbari is an artist working in video installation and film based between Toronto and Lisbon. His practice is research-driven and usually exists at the intersections of storytelling, political ecology, critical border studies, and human geography. Felix Kalmenson is an artist and filmmaker. Kalmenson’s work variably narrates the liminal space of a researcher’s and artist’s encounter with landscape and archive.
