The World Without Us: Homo Sapiens

Homo SapiensDirected by Nikolaus GeyrhalterJuly 29-August 4 at Anthology Film Archives
An eerily serene whistle-stop tour of abandoned built environments, Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s estimable Homo Sapiens imagines a purely (if not outlandishly) speculative scenario: a near-future world from which humans have vanished. The Austrian filmmaker, who here keeps his camera motionless, shuttles among depopulated contemporary ruins as far-flung as Fukushima and a stateside mall, where the movie theate