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Program 2: Last Things

Film still from Deborah Stratman’s „Last Things“. Three big clear cuboid crystals on the upper half of the image on the base of small, almost equally clear crystals on the bottom half.
© Deborah Stratman

Sat 18.02.
20:00

  • Director

    Deborah Stratman

  • France, USA, Portugal / 2023
    50 min. / Original version with English subtitles

  • Original language

    French, English

  • Cinema

    silent green Kulturquartier

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender

Evolution and extinction from the point of view of rocks and various future others: LAST THINGS introduces the geo-biosphere as a place of evolutionary possibility, where humans disappear but life endures.
Catalyzed by two novellas by J.-H. Rosny, joint pseudonym of the Belgian brothers Boex who wrote sci-fi before it was a genre, the film takes up their pluralist vision of evolution, where imagining prehistory is inseparable from envisioning the future. Also formative were Roger Caillois’s writing on stones, Clarice Lispector’s “The Hour of the Star,” Robert Hazen’s mineral evolution theory, the symbiosis theory of Lynn Margulis, Donna Haraway’s multi-species scenarios, Hazel Barton’s research on cave microbes, and Marcia Bjørnerud’s thoughts on time literacy.
In one way or another, these thinkers have all sought to displace humankind from the center of evolutionary processes. Passages from Rosny and interviews with Bjørnerud form the film’s spine. Stones are its anchor. We trust stone as archive, but we may as well write on water. In the end, it’s particles that remain.

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media