"The Common Task"

On April 13, 2011 I attended a Art program on Nikolai Federov, now there was more to the presentation but I was only able to stay for the part on Federov. The presentation was done in an artistic way as it was presented through a vivid video with beautiful scenario shots. these images where of Russia and depicted the beauty that can be seen within this vast last. Accompanying the video was a narrative of Federov's life, but the great aspect to this was that the speaker giving the presentation was the one narrating the story. This form of story telling gave the audience a face to piece with the voice creating a sort of direct relationship between the protagonist of the story and the audience. Simply put, it created a lifelike sense to the video of pure imagery. The only actually sound coming from the video was that of nature which would occupy the background and go in accordance to Nikolai Federov's life. For example during times of hardship, sounds of rain falling would be herd.

The main point to the presentation was to show how Russia came about the mission to reach to the stores; attempt to travel into space. Part of Federov's philosophy in life was that all matter throughout the Universe contained aspects of past human lives and that it would be collected in order for those people or being to be reincarnated and have this cycle of life and death continue on. This idea would later evolve into the premise that the world may come to an end and human life must look elsewhere for subsistince.

Overall the video depicted the life of Nikolai Federov but also the beauty of the earth and life present within. "All problems known to man have a single root in the existence of death."