Thanks to global warming and ChatGPT, we’re used to the idea of a world without us. And accordingly, the filmmakers of this programme chart a map of disappearing humanity. Poetic climate change? See what would happen if it rained indoors, not outdoors, in The Eastern Rain. AI? Be unsettled by the machine-generated aesthetics of Planets and Robots, where there is no human life behind its images. 

So, what is left when everybody has gone? Hopefully, as the darkly humorous Drijf demonstrates, our basic instincts will remain: the will to survive and to bicker with your partner. Ghosts will linger too, analogue and unexpected in Howling, digital and distant through our screen in The Ghost of Mariupol. 

And at the very end, trees will prevail, teaching us the history of a forgotten land in the melancholy The Despair of Monkeys, or just by being the origin of Catalog ’93 – a paper digest of everything you need to know about goods, women, men and, well… humanity.

Foreword by the programme curator: Dealing with the post-human condition – what is left after humans are gone, replaced, or deceased?