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Cosmographies

Cosmographies

2024

6

Categories:

  • Science Fiction

Overview:

Maori astrobiologist Xuê Noon (Victoria Hunt) finds solace in Mars in 2051 as a leader from the Aotearoa Space Agency on an international scientific mission, following the discovery of dormant microorganisms by the NASA Mars Sample Return Mission in 2039. Xuê wanders across this sentient planet and reflects on the newly found lifeforms as she grows plants in a glasshouse. Through the spirit of an ancient taniwha, she slipstreams in spacetime to the Atacama Desert in 2023 where she lived as an Indigenous scientist years earlier. In Atacama the film engages with numerous ongoing life-and-death struggles for land and water justice led by Indigenous communities, activists, and scientists in this old, vital yet scarred desert. Through interviews and conversations, the film depicts centuries old and ongoing forms of social injustice and ecological degradation to weave a critical allegory against the renewed commercial impulse of a new space age rampaging in the 2020's.

Juan Francisco Salazar

Director, Writer, Location Sound Recordist, Executive Producer, Camera Operator, Costume Design

Victoria Hunt

Writer, Costume Design

Cast:

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  • Victoria Hunt

    Victoria Hunt

    Xuê Noon
  • Adriana Aránguiz

    Adriana Aránguiz

    Participant
  • Jimena Cruz Mamani

    Jimena Cruz Mamani

    Participant
  • Rudecindo Christian Espíndola

    Rudecindo Christian Es...

    Participant
  • Félix Galleguillos Aymani

    Félix Galleguillos Aym...

    Participant
  • Edith Parra Espíndola

    Edith Parra Espíndola

    Participant