Homo Sapiens

Name: Homo Sapiens
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 29, 2016
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 84

2016

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Kimstim Films | Release Date: July 29, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: 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 hasHomo 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.… Expand

Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Glenn Kenny

Jul 28, 2016

Each individual shot creates a frisson of desolation that resonates far beyond the facile irony suggested by the movie’s title. Read full review

James Lattimer

Jul 26, 2016

A real yet illusory world is evoked so seamlessly that it also feels just one step away from pure cinematic fiction. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Jul 27, 2016

The fact that movies are a technology of motion makes them uniquely suited to capturing stillness; Geyrhalter takes full advantage, using vivid sound design and his own eye for striking static compositions to create haunting tableaux. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Jul 26, 2016

Michael Sicinski

Jul 28, 2016

Instead of uncovering artifacts from long ago, Homo Sapiens shows us our own relics in the making. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Feb 27, 2018

Ninety minutes of abandonment and decay, it may seem pretentious but this also perfectly represents who we are and what we were.

Everything fades away eventually.

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