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the last film on earth

2024 · 13 min · english · experimental / documentary / nature
In a world where cinema has become obsolete, a lone filmmaker embarks on a journey to capture the last moving images of Earth. Through a blend of found footage, digital artifacts, and intimate observations of nature, this experimental documentary explores the relationship between human memory, technological obsolescence, and the enduring beauty of the natural world. As the filmmaker documents disappearing landscapes and forgotten technologies, the film itself becomes a meditation on the impermanence of both human creation and the planet we inhabit.
Other titles: La última película
Countries: Colombia, Portugal
Director: Andrés Isaza Giraldo
Screenplay: Andrés Isaza Giraldo
Cinematography: Mariana Santana y Thibault Solinhac
Editing: Andrés Isaza Giraldo
Art Direction: Andrés Azzolina, Fernando Moletta
Musica: Miguel Isaza
Producer: Milagros Cabral Montijano
"Here we find a clear use of historical reality to construct a narrative that moves backward through linear time. For example, we see specific allusions (in the order of the storyline) to the golden age of cinema, the discovery of America, the great empires, prehistory, the earliest geological ages of the earth, and what seems to be the origin of life in the universe. I find particularly beautiful the moments in which the machine and Isaza converge in order to step away from that historical reality and allow themselves to imagine it: to be chromosome, fire, branch, flora, medicine, reflection, gleam, to be water and swim like organic compounds, to sweep, stalk, climb, run, flee, and sleep. To condense time through the relationships between images: to dissolve flowers in the snow, to bury empires in the sand, to mutate dust into root, root into fire, fire into stars, and stars into cave paintings."
Jhonny Carvajal for Los Experimentos Cine
Still from The Last Film on Earth

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2022 · 3 min · video in loop and digital image with stereo sound

How to simulate sacrality for a machine? This is the first run of a film that might become the last film to be ever done, even after the extinction of humanity.

The computer tries to relieve all life, once it is already gone.
Humans and life unravel from one single cell.
This fragile body that I am, is in itself my own history.
inaccessible but through my own [ body-history ]

The nature of history is oblivion,
the world is destroyed by those who built it,
and the very ones who remember also decide to forget.
To be born is in itself to relive what was lived before.

The computer contains a list of text prompts describing images,
from which an unlimited number of new movies can be generated.
Code and video look at each other like a mirror.
The movie is a never-ending newly created memory.
In the age of machines, only life can guide [ them-us-me ]

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