The second installment of Anton Vidokle’s trilogy on Russian cosmism, The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun, looks at the poetic dimension of the 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. It 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 the limitations of earthly life.
Directing | Anton Vidokle | Director |
Writing | Anton Vidokle | Writer |
Production | Anton Vidokle | Producer |
Production | Sergei Gooleikov | Producer |
Camera | Ayman Nahle | Director of Photography |
Sound | John Cale | Music |
Editing | Adam Khalil | Editor |
Editing | Meggie Schneider | Editor |
Writing | Nikolai Fedorov | Story |
Sound | Jochen Jezussek | Sound Mixer |
Editing | Patrik Metzger | Color Grading |
Sound | Ilja Köster | ADR Recordist |
Sound | Yuri Khramovskiy | Sound Recordist |
Visual Effects | Alan Woo | Animation |
Crew | Vitaliy Dvoretskiy | Drone Operator |
Lighting | Valeriy Lashkevich | Lighting Director |
Production | Iman Musa Kulmohhametov | Location Assistant |
Crew | Dmitry Pershin | Driver |
Crew | Maria Lind | Thanks |
Crew | Anselm Franke | Thanks |
Crew | Hito Steyerl | Thanks |
Crew | Lily Lewis | Thanks |
Crew | Rivers Plasketes | Thanks |
Crew | Aleksandr Sheyn Jr. | Thanks |
Crew | Boris Groys | Thanks |
Crew | Anastasia Gacheva | Thanks |
Crew | Arseny Zhiliaev | Thanks |
Sound | Carsten Nicolai | Music Editor |