Last Things
Deborah Stratman
50 min., 2023, US, English and French with English subtitles
Last Things is an experimental film shot on 16mm, presenting evolution and extinction from the point of view of rocks and various future others. Made in a sci-fi spirit, the film offers an incredible array of images, from microscopic forms to vast landscapes. In dialogue with thinkers such as J.-H. Rosny, Clarice Lispector and Marcia Bjørnerud, the film seeks to displace humankind and human reason from the centre of evolutionary processes, taking up a pluralistic vision of evolution and imagining prehistory as inseparable from envisioning the future.