The Human Surge

Name: The Human Surge
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Released: March 3, 2017
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 56

2017

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Grasshopper Film | Release Date: March 3, 2017 | Not Rated

Summary: Buenos Aires. Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle. Through the dense vegetation ofBuenos Aires. Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle. Through the dense vegetation of the forest, Archie tracks ants back to their nest. One of them wanders off course and comes across Canh, a Filipino, sitting on top of a giant heap of earth and who is about to go back to his strange, beautiful home town. [Grasshopper Film]… Expand

Director: Eduardo Williams

Genre(s): Drama, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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IndieWire Eric Kohn

Sep 9, 2016

This is a heckuva stimulating cinematic achievement for a relative newcomer. The Human Surge offers a shrewd commentary on the dissonance of technological connectivity and personal communication. Read full review

Diana Clarke

Mar 5, 2017

Surreal and wordlessly unsettling, Eduardo Williams’ globe-crossing feature The Human Surge is intimate and pleasurably inscrutable. Read full review

The Film Stage Ethan Vestby

Feb 24, 2017

Often blatantly ugly or boring, it’s not so much deliberately confrontational in the way so many experimental films are (or pride themselves on being), but rather risk-taking for the sake of something almost impossible to articulate — even if based in something obvious. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Feb 9, 2017

If the slender paradox at the heart of the film is that the thing that connects us most is the difficulty of connection, The Human Surge is a victim of its own effectiveness: It’s rigorous, rarefied, and utterly remote. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Mar 2, 2017

Just when you think you’ve got the movie pegged, it pulls a daring switch of perspective. While the thrill of that little coup is short-lived, it suggests that Mr. Williams may come up with something more substantial with his next feature. Read full review

Carson Lund

Feb 24, 2017

The film’s default state is an ambient inertia that gestures vaguely in multiple directions without concerning itself with the hard work of constructing an argument, a convincing milieu, or even a compelling mood. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Fagerholm

Mar 3, 2017

Though the picture is admirable on a conceptual level, its execution is incoherent, interminable and a colossal strain on the eyes. Read full review

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bobmeier

Jul 26, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I saw The Human Surge on dvd last night and I loved it. I was turned on to this film by Cinema Scope's (Canadian film mag) top ten list for 2017. What I found so fascinating about this film was the way the film looked. There are many many shots that are so beautifully composed, use of color, constant camera motion. Also how modern technology has entered the lives of everyone in the film. The people in the film are everyday characters that we all know. The main character of the film has lost a not-so-great job and doesn't really seem to be trying to get another one. We've all been there,right? The use of color (um, FANTASTIC) and the way the shots are composed and the constant moving camera reminded me some of Kaili Blues, if you've seen that. Although modern technology has entered the lives of everyone in the film, it hasn't really made their lives any better. It seems to be just another hoop that we'll have to jump through in order to live. One scene shows a guy taking a piss into an antheap, and then the camera shows ants doing ant work on the colony. They are not too different from us, right? How much of what we do is just rote mechanical behavior.
I loved this film and hope this review encourages you to give it a chance.… Expand

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