The title ‘The Ascent of Man’ is adapted from the 1973 BBC documentary of the same name on humanity’s ascent from proto-ape to modern man. Mixing elements of original footage with stop motion animation, Hartung investigates common mythmaking and storytelling tropes employed to entertain public television audiences.
Also in this combined programme
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Insideout
You’re never alone with a camera. Insideout is a poetic mash-up of existential confessions from the depths of the YouTube jungle.
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Cities of Gold and Mirrors
The temporary and the eternal are unified in this epic five-part film by one of the world’s hippest artists. A culture in decline.
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Remisequenz
Brief, associative animation conjures up a colourful world of reality and fiction, recognisability and abstraction.
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Thalé
The future is not what it used to be. A catalogue of botanical fantasies like a space-age herbarium.
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Prim Limit
An alarming message. Existentialist problems have entered Second Life and waste disposal has to be tackled too.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2009
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 15"
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
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