Last Things

“Prolific artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman’s latest feature Last Things examines evolution and extinction from the perspective of the rocks and minerals that came before humanity and will outlast us.

With scientists and thinkers like Lynn Margulis and Marcia Bjørnerud as guides and quoting from the proto-sci-fi texts of J.H. Rosny, Stratman offers a stunning array of images, from microscopic forms to vast landscapes, and seeks a picture of evolution without humans at the center.

Stratman’s haunting, iridescent work of science-nonfiction actively decenters the human perspective, narrating the history and the speculative future of the universe with rocks as its protagonists.”

Note by Devika Girish, Film Comment

Playing with two short video works by Stratman:

Laika | 2021 | 4.5 min
Some forms we can only know by their shadow. In homage to the spirits of space test dogs, or any being we use in the name of progress. A music video made by invitation of composer Olivia Block for the release of her album Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea (Room40).

It Will Die Out In the Mind | 2006 | 4 min
A short meditation on the possibility of spiritual existence and the paranormal in our information age. Texts are lifted from Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker.

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