Last Things
Essential Documentaries
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49m
Directed by Deborah Stratman | 49 mins | 2023
In the artist and experimental film essayist Deborah Stratman’s scintillating latest work, life on earth—all the way through to its projected extinction—is envisioned from the perspective of rocks. Fusing hard science with speculative and poetic modes, this posthumanist piece is in conversation with the proto-science-fiction of the Boex brothers as well as works by Donna Haraway and Clarice Lispector, among others.
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