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Homo Sapiens
2016 · Film · documentary · 94 min
Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
HOMO SAPIENS is visionary documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter's exploration of the finiteness and fragility of human existence, 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, now abandoned and decaying, gradually reclaimed by nature. Comprised of a succession of eerily depopulated, dystopian landscapes from across the world, HOMO SAPIENS offers an at once mesmerizing and chilling vision of what a posthuman future might look like.
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Really interesting. There are a few scenes like this in the excellent art film Homo Sapiens[0][1] that stuck with me. Overgrown Japanese landscape with vending machines (don't remember if these were actually powered though).
[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5450084/
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEgjEzB36Lo
> An event that kills 90% of people worldwide would be horrible but again, would not present a threat to species survival [..]
Speaking of which, wasn't there some kind of massive reduction of the homo sapiens population at two point in time ? I seem to recall a documentary with a few scattered tribes walking in the blizzard. Something like ony 10 000 humans left.