Last and first men
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✎ Suggest a correctionTwo billion years in the future, humanity finds itself on the verge of extinction. Almost all that remains are lone, surreal monuments; the futuristic, solemn, Brutalist stone slabs erected during the communist era in the former Yugoslav republics, arrestingly photographed in luminous 16mm black-and-white. The filmmaker conjures a world of surreal and phantasmagorical monuments, once intended as symbols of unity and brotherhood, now abandoned beacons beaming their message into the wilderness. Based on the cult 1930 science fiction novel by British author Olaf Stapledon, this is a poetic, hopeful, and tragic work: an allegory of remembrance, ideals, and the death of Utopia.
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- Tilda Swinton; Metrograph Pictures (film distributor); Films Boutique (Firm) (film distributor); Jóhann Jóhannsson, 1969-2018, film director, screenwriter (composer (expression)); 1973- film producer Þórir Snær Sigurjónsson; Grøvlen, Sturla Brandth, 1980- film producer; José Enrique Macián (screenwriter); Swinton, Tilda, actor (narrator); Yair Elazar Glotman (composer (expression)); Olaf Stapledon
Complete catalog record
Original source: Based on the 1930 cult sci fi novel by Olaf Stapledon. | Originally released as a motion picture in 2020. | Wide screen. | Includes trailer. | Music, Jóhan Jóhannsson, Yair Elazar Glotman ; editor, Mark Bukdahl ; cinematography, Sturla Brandth Grøven.
Release: New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2023]
Physical description: 1 videodiscc (approximately 71 min.) : sound, black and white with brief color sequences ; 4 3/4 in. | 4 3/4 in. | stamping | black and white | color | polychrome | monochrome | video file | Blu-ray 1080p high definition | Region A
Edition: Blu-ray.
Subjects: Future life -- Drama | Human beings -- Extinction -- Drama | Future life | Human beings -- Extinction | Stapledon, Olaf, 1886-1950 -- Film adaptations | Stapledon, Olaf, 1886-1950
Country: Iceland
Language note: In English.
Related works: Motion picture adaptation of (work): Stapledon, Olaf, 1886-1950. Last and first men.
Release: New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2023]
Physical description: 1 videodiscc (approximately 71 min.) : sound, black and white with brief color sequences ; 4 3/4 in. | 4 3/4 in. | stamping | black and white | color | polychrome | monochrome | video file | Blu-ray 1080p high definition | Region A
Edition: Blu-ray.
Subjects: Future life -- Drama | Human beings -- Extinction -- Drama | Future life | Human beings -- Extinction | Stapledon, Olaf, 1886-1950 -- Film adaptations | Stapledon, Olaf, 1886-1950
Country: Iceland
Language note: In English.
Related works: Motion picture adaptation of (work): Stapledon, Olaf, 1886-1950. Last and first men.
Sources
- UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, creator, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
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