Playing with the tone and structure of a nature documentary, Copenhagen art and design duo Anny Wang and Tim Söderström offer witty glimpses into how life has adapted to a new ecology on Earth in the distant future.

Anny Wang and Tim Söderström: “Earth has been home to humanity for around two hundred thousand years – a fraction of the geological time scale. Yet in this short slice of habitation, our imprint has been so vast, so palpable, that some now describe the littered layer of human generated structures and systems as the technosphere.

“This is a quickly evolving stratum of neo-geologic time and one that, unlike the biosphere, is comparatively deficient in recycling its own materials.

“This film takes us into a desert-like world, soft and colorful. New species exploit a degrading layer of the planet’s crust by digging, foraging, and designing new homes. What is toxic for one species is a perfect habitat for another. Among the remnants of the Anthropocene, life moves.”
 
 

 
Production: 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