“Cosmographies” (2025) (Film Screening)
09. Jun
The Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) invites you to the film screening of “Cosmographies.” The event includes a talk with director Juan Francisco Salazar. This event is part of the Climate Futures event series.
- Tuesday, June 9 / 7 – 9 pm / SCALA cinema
- Registration is not necessary.
Contact: cdcforum@leuphana.de
The struggle for environmental justice against ongoing forms of extractivism and ecological ruin in the Atacama Desert is an allegory against ongoing plans to colonise the Moon and Mars, where Māori astrobiologist Xuê Noon finds solace in 2051. More info at: https://cosmographies.info/.
Australia/Chile, 2025 // 94 min // 4K DCI – 16:9 – colour // Dolby 5.1 sound
Juan Francisco Salazar is Director (Interim) of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University in Australia where he is Professor of Media and Environment and past Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2020-2024). His latest books are the co-edited collection Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space (Routledge 2023); the co-authored book Antarctic Cities: From Gateways to Global Custodians (University of Nebraska Press,2026) and the authored book Space Futures Otherwise (forthcoming with Routledge). His latest film is Cosmographies (2025) a collaboration with artist Victoria Hunt and produced in collaboration with the Indigenous Lickanantay Community of Toconao in Chile.
An event organised in collaboration with the Centre for Digital Culture and the research area Climate Futures in Digital Cultures [EN link to ET website: https://www.leuphana.de/en/portals/embracing-transformation/key-subject-areas.html]
Image Credit: Victoria Hunt as Māori astrobiologist Xue Noon in “Cosmographies” (Australia/Chile, 2025)