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Thanks to global warming and ChatGPT, we\u2019re 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<\/i>. AI? Be unsettled by the machine-generated aesthetics of Planets and Robots<\/i>, where there is no human life behind its images.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So, what is left when everybody has gone? Hopefully, as the darkly humorous Drijf<\/i> 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<\/i>, digital and distant through our screen in The Ghost of Mariupol<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And at the very end, trees will prevail, teaching us the history of a forgotten land in the melancholy The Despair of Monkeys<\/i>, or just by being the origin of Catalog \u201993<\/i> \u2013 a paper digest of everything you need to know about goods, women, men and, well\u2026 humanity.<\/p>\n
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