Film Details

The latest documentary from the Austrian maker of Our Daily Bread is another album of dramatically framed, emotionally fraught tableaux, captured with a static camera. Despite its title, Geyrhalter’s new film has no people in it. Instead of human beings, the movie depicts crumbling buildings, disused landscapes, and other places that have been vacated by those who lived and worked there and abandoned to the elements. This film’s stunning, haunting images evoke Anselm Kiefer, Andrei Tarkovsky, and every post-apocalyptic sci-fi film you’ve ever seen. “Instead of uncovering artifacts from long ago, Homo Sapiens shows us our own relics in the making.” –Village Voice. DCP. 94 min.