Homo sapiens (1960)

Directed by

Ion Popescu-Gopo

Genre

animation

Country

Romania

Runtime

9 min

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This Romanian animated film from 1960 traces the development of humanity from its earliest stages through a series of simple line drawings. It shows a stick figure evolving across time and technology, highlighting the fragility and absurdity of human progress.

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What happens

Homo sapiens este un film de animație românesc din 1960, regizat de Ion Popescu-Gopo. În 1982, Gopo a regizat un film de animație cu un titlu asemănător: Quo vadis homo sapiens (1982). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.