Cosmosaga

Cosmosaga

Cosmosaga

In a multiverse of infinite worlds, we all have one world we call "home". The town, land or world where we came from, where we grew up.


But some don't feel like home here on Earth. They simply don't fit in. They may have different values and thinking, or they want to do things differently. Many are being misunderstood, or called naive, or diagnosed with various disorders.


But what if they really don't belong here? What if they happened to end up at the wrong place? Cosmosaga is the story of one such child. A little boy who feel closer to the natural world than to other Humans. A little boy who doesn't want anything but being everyone's friend. But who in the end, are met by cruelty beyond his beliefs...


Hans Starlife spent three years making the film, which was produced parallel with another Starlife film - Moonlin's Wish. In both cases, he was only assisted by two of his children. In Cosmosaga, his son Michael plays the main character as the "Cosmic Son". While in Moonlin's Wish, his daugther fills that role.


Hans Starlife once took his family name after hearing Carl Sagan pondering life's cosmic origins, and gladly admits he has many things in common with the boy in the story:


- The cosmos must have given me outsider's perspective on things. I've never really felt at home on this planet, more like an observer from beyond, from somewhere else....


Cosmosaga is an esthetical film accompanied by music from Hans' Swedish friend Ralph Lundsten, a legendary electronic music composer. Beyond that, his greatest sources of inspiration was the non-narrated cult film "Koyaanisqatsi", Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" and Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams".


But it is also a very emotional and symbolic film which questions what we Humans are and stand for. Some scenes might even be a bit scary for smaller kids. But it's an important question we probably should reflect on more often in a world where greed and shortsighted thinking had lead to many problems.


The boy in the film appears quite naive from a Human perspective. In our societies, that is considered to be something bad which makes you a looser. But is it?


- In a hypothetical "perfect society", there would be no lying, cheating or manipulation, and then you could be infinitely naive without getting into trouble, Hans says. You could measure it, these things stand in direct relation. The more naive you can be, the more evolved your society is.


Some call it "Starlife's Law".


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Cosmosaga


Production Stills:

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Movie site: 
Cosmosaga.com


Title: Cosmosaga
Duration:
Original Version: 40 mins
Enhanced Edition: 30 mins

(Both available on Vimeo & YouTube)

Release Year:
2021 (original version)
2022 (enhanced edition)


Writer/Producer/Director:
Hans Starlife


Cast:
Michael Starlife
Hans Starlife
Selina Moonlin Starlife


Music: Ralph Lundsten et.al.


Legal Film Rights:
Hans Starlife / Starlife Group


External Link:
This film also has its own movie site:
Cosmosaga.com


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