HOMO SAPIENS
synopsis
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 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.
international title: | Homo Sapiens |
original title: | Homo Sapiens |
country: | Austria |
sales agent: | Autlook Filmsales GmbH |
year: | 2016 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
film run: | 90' |
release date: | FR 19/10/2016 |
screenplay: | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
cinematography by: | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
film editing: | Michael Palm |
music: | Peter Kutin, Florian Kindlinger |
producer: | Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Michael Kitzberger, Markus Glaser, Wolfgang Widerhofer |
production: | Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion |
backing: | Österreichisches Filminstitut, FISA - Filmstandort Austria, ORF Film/Fernsehabkommen, ZDF/3sat. Project development supported by Filmfonds Wien |
distributor: | ASC Distribution |