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Homo sapiens
Homo sapiens
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821 Ratings

HOMO SAPIENS

Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Austria, 2016
Documentary

Synopsis

The images could be taken from a science fiction film set on planet Earth after it’s become uninhabitable. All these locations carry the traces of erstwhile human existence and bear witness to a civilisation that brought forth architecture, art, ideologies, wars and environmental disasters.

Synopsis

The images could be taken from a science fiction film set on planet Earth after it’s become uninhabitable. All these locations carry the traces of erstwhile human existence and bear witness to a civilisation that brought forth architecture, art, ideologies, wars and environmental disasters.

Our take

Niklaus Geyrhalter’s extraordinary Homo Sapiens is a film of perplexing intensity. Halfway between documentary and science fiction (isn’t everything these days?), it portrays the state of the world after humanity’s collapse as you’ve never seen it before.