Pejvak is the long-term collaboration between Felix Kalmenson and Rouzbeh Akhbari. Kalmenson is an artist and filmmaker. His work variably narrates the liminal space of a researcher’s and artist’s encounter with landscape and archive. Rouzbeh Akhbari is an artist working in video installation and film based between Toronto and Lisbon. His practice is research-driven and usually exists at the intersections of storytelling, political ecology, critical border studies, and human geography. Their collective works have been exhibited at museums and galleries internationally and their films have screened in numerous international film festivals. Shokouk: A Cosmicomedy in Four Acts is a transhistorical hybrid documentary that traces a polyphony of characters, sites and encounters related to infrastructures of space travel and cosmic imaginaries. Following a vertiginous narrative connecting various cosmic machinations from the 12th century Persianate world to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the present moment, the film weaves historical facts and archival fabulations, and questions our common perceptions of time and space.