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Excellent
MASTER SCORE 70.4 / 100
2016·Documentary·1h 34m

HOMO SAPIENS

HOMO SAPIENS is visionary documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter's exploration of the finiteness and fragility of human existence, the end of the industrial age, and what it means to be a human being. What will remain of our lives after we're gone? Empty spaces, ruins, cities, increasingly overgrown with vegetation, crumbling asphalt: the areas we currently inhabit, now abandoned and decaying, gradually reclaimed by nature. Comprised of a succession of eerily depopulated, dystopian landscapes from across the world, HOMO SAPIENS offers an at once mesmerizing and chilling vision of what a posthuman future might look like.

Above the Line
Nikolaus Geyrhalter·DirectorNikolaus Geyrhalter·WriterNikolaus Geyrhalter·Director of PhotographyMichael Palm·Editor
Full Crew
(11 credits)
Directing· 1
Nikolaus Geyrhalter·Director
Writing· 1
Nikolaus Geyrhalter·Writer
Camera· 1
Nikolaus Geyrhalter·Director of Photography
Editing· 1
Michael Palm·Editor
Production· 7
Nikolaus Geyrhalter·ProducerMarkus Glaser·ProducerMichael Kitzberger·Executive ProducerWolfgang Widerhofer·ProducerFlavio Marchetti·Production ManagerLixi Frank·Production ManagerKatharina Posch·Production Manager
By the Numbers
70.4
OF 100
Master Score
7.1
OF 10
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Worldwide Gross
0
Oscar Wins
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THE VISUAL DECONSTRUCTION

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Dominant Palette
3 colors
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Mood
Serious
Composition
Centered
Era
1990s
Visual Style
Photographic

“The movie poster features a group of prehistoric humans at the top, with three mammoths at the bottom. The humans are depicted with varying expressions and ador”

Key Elements
MammothsHumansMovie PosterTitle
Atmosphere
Natural
Color Mood
Mixed
Setting
Wilderness
Design Score
7/10
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