Enjoying with the tone and construction of a nature documentary, Copenhagen artwork and design duo Anny Wang and Tim Söderström supply witty glimpses into how life has tailored to a brand new ecology on Earth within the distant future.
Anny Wang and Tim Söderström: “Earth has been dwelling to humanity for round 200 thousand years – a fraction of the geological time scale. But on this brief slice of habitation, our imprint has been so huge, so palpable, that some now describe the littered layer of human generated buildings and programs because the technosphere.
“This can be a rapidly evolving stratum of neo-geologic time and one which, not like the biosphere, is relatively poor in recycling its personal supplies.
“This movie takes us right into a desert-like world, comfortable and colourful. New species exploit a degrading layer of the planet’s crust by digging, foraging, and designing new properties. What’s poisonous for one species is an ideal habitat for one more. Among the many remnants of the Anthropocene, life strikes.”
Manufacturing: Wang & Söderström
Director/animator: Anny Wang, Tim Söderström
Audio: CDXQ Studio
Sound designer: Samad Boughalam
Voice-over: Samad Boughalam
Typeface: Diagonal Grotesk by Kanon Foundry