About Cosmosaga

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

But some don't feel like home here at all. 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, on this planet? What if they, at least spiritually, ended up at the wrong place?

Cosmosaga is the story of one such child. A little boy who came to Earth from somewhere beyond. A boy who did not want anything but being everyone's friend. The film follows him as he wanders through the wildlife, greeting all the living things around him. Until he finally finds himself in the middle of a big and busy city.

Suddenly, he has two parents telling him it's time go to school, and his cosmic origins fade away. Only knowing of goodness, he happily comply. But that's when the troubles start, Soon he will be met by evilness and cruelty beyond his belief. How can Humans be like this? It will almost takes a lifetime of terror before he finally finds his way back home.

Writer/Producer/Director 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 his family, including his two kids Michael and Moonlin. In Cosmosaga, it's his son Michael who plays the main character as the Cosmic Son, in the movie simply called "Son".

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 partly accompanied by music from Hans' friend Ralph Lundsten, the legendary Swedish composer who pioneered the electronic music genre for many decades. 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".

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

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

- In a hypothetical "perfect society", there would be no lying, no cheating, no manipulation. So 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".

Title: Cosmosaga
Duration:
Original Version: 40 mins

Enhanced Edition: 30 mins

(Both versions are available
on Vimeo and YouTube)

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

Writer/Producer/Director:
Hans Starlife

Cast:
Michael Starlife
Hans Starlife
Selina Starlife

Ralph Lundsten's music:  
© Ralph Lundsten.

Film Rights: © Starlife Group

Courtesy of Ralph Lundsten's archive.

Legendary, award-winning Swedish composer Ralph Lundsten, a true pioneer of the electronic music genre, kindly contributed his music to the film score.

You can hear his tracks as the main character venture back to the woods and discovers the universe bubble, approx. between 26:00-33.30.

Included works:

"Earthlight" and "Dreamlight", from The Symphony of Light, opus 521, released 1994.

You can buy his music from
pluggedrecords.com

Ralph Lundsten is also honored in the film's end credits:

"To Ralph, with many thanks for
your lifetime of pioneering
electronic music and
spreading cosmic happiness."