Homo Sapiens (2016)
March 8, 2025 8:36 AM - Subscribe
This "documentary" is an eerie, wordless and scoreless vision of post-human abandonment. Without explanations and with a static camera, it visits deserted locations around the world years after the people had given up on them. Derelict concert halls, prison cells, bank vaults, cathedrals and train cabins, from Fukushima, and Chernobyl, and the many other disaster areas people have left behind, surrounding them to the elements, letting the birds and the rain and the weeds take over again. It’s hypnotic and transcendental. The trailer.
It’s as if Edward Burtynsky and the Koyaanisqatsi guys had sex with Werner Herzog, but decided not to give the new baby any clues. 9/10.
💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes.
7.0 on IMDb.
3.8 on Letterboxd.
Available on Vimeo or on your favorite pirated sites.
It’s as if Edward Burtynsky and the Koyaanisqatsi guys had sex with Werner Herzog, but decided not to give the new baby any clues. 9/10.
💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes.
7.0 on IMDb.
3.8 on Letterboxd.
Available on Vimeo or on your favorite pirated sites.
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posted by growabrain at 8:40 AM on March 8 [1 favorite]