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Cosmographies (2024)

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1h 34min

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Plot

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.

Genres

Science FictionDocumentary

Technical details

DetailValue
Original titleCosmografias
Original languageEspañol (ES)
Spoken languagesEnglish, Español
Production countriesAustralia, Chile, New Zealand
StatusReleased
Official sitecosmographies.info
Release date1 gennaio 2024
Executive producerJuan Francisco Salazar, Alejandra Canales
WriterJuan Francisco Salazar, Victoria Hunt
EditingRowena Crowe
CinematographyJuan Francisco Salazar
Assistant directorsJuan Francisco Salazar, Victoria Hunt, Valentina Figueroa
Camera operatorsJuan Francisco Salazar
Additional photographyJuan Francisco Salazar
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Release dates

Theatrical release

Australia / Jan 01, 2024

New Zealand / Mar 29, 2025 / Māoriland Film Festival 2025

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