Homo Sapiens Plot
The images could be taken from a science fiction film set on planet Earth after it’s become uninhabitable. Abandoned buildings – housing estates, shops, cinemas, hospitals, offices, schools, a library, amusement parks and prisons. Places and areas being reclaimed by nature, such as a moss-covered bar with ferns growing between the stools, a still stocked soft drinks machine now covered with vegetation, an overgrown rubbish dump, or tanks in the forest. Tall grass sprouts from cracks in the asphalt. Birds circle in the dome of a decommissioned reactor, a gust of wind makes window blinds clatter or scraps of paper float around, the noise of the rain: sounds entirely without words, plenty of room for contemplation. All these locations carry the traces of erstwhile human existence and bear witness to a civilisation that brought forth architecture, art, the entertainment industry, technologies, ideologies, wars and environmental disasters.
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User Review
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Interesting documentary from Nikolaus Geyrhalter. He sets up cameras at abandoned places and show us material from all over the world presented in takes from 15 to one minute worth of lenght. Some short black screen cuts are letting us know that we're in a new place, otherwise we just sit there and observe without added voice or text.
Beautiful, but at times sad - almost scary. It's a world without people, only the leftovers from our race. I really would like to see the location list. The nature - with it's wind and birds are our only storyteller here. It does a great job. You may create you're own stories of what's been going on, but you never know for sure.
Good film, but easy to... |
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