another_broken_cog | 32 points
Homo Sapiens shows stunning images of forgotten places, buildings we constructed and then left.
HOMO SAPIENS is a film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age, and what it means to be a human being.
What will remain of our lives after we're gone?
Empty spaces, ruins, cities increasingly overgrown with vegetation, crumbling asphalt: the areas we currently inhabit, though humanity has disappeared. Now abandoned and decaying, gradually reclaimed by nature after being taken from it so long ago.
HOMO SAPIENS is an ode to humanity as seen from a possible future scenario. It intends to sharpen our eyes for the here and now, and our consciousness of the present.
Some comments
“Meticulous, provocative“ The New York Times
“as intriguing as it is overwhelming“
“A gloriously beautiful documentary of an unimagined future“
“Nikolaus Geyrhalter's films are also called film poems. He does not go for a quick information round, but chooses a quiet rhythm and a poetic rather than narrative approach that offers space for reflection. ... Thanks to the distant, recording attitude of the director, the scenes have an almost unearthly, weird, abstract beauty.“
“A typically masterful, disturbing work, scary in its compositional perfection and unblinking depiction of mankind's effect on the planet.“
“One of the premier nonfiction filmmakers working today.“
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