Sapiens?
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A three-part film (three shorts) with a classical music soundtrack about humans and their relationship with nature and society. Diverse themes that share a common denominator: a love of violence and non-acceptance of diversity. An extreme solution would be to have a world without humans.
Part One - Against the melodrama of Giuseppe Verdi’s Un Giorno di Regno, the film shows the means of destruction that man has created to fight innumerable wars of futile reason.
Part Two - Chopin’s Etude, Op. 10 no. 3 accompanies a spider trying to climb out of a sink it accidentally fell into.
Part Three - The death of animal species due to human activity since humans inhabited the Earth is accompanied by Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture.
«The most beautiful phrase I remember in my life was said by a child: "What is a drawing? It's an idea with a line around it." It's beautiful and represents my entire life.
For about thirty years, I've tried to see living beings from afar, and like a cartoon, the further I get, the more they become microorganisms, bacteria that conquer and destroy everything. Sure, they've made many wonderful discoveries and inventions, but we can't judge them solely on the basis of a few enlightened figures. It doesn't take much to see how humans change when they become numbers and no longer people. That's why, in the third episode of Sapiens?, humans are depicted in silhouette, becoming symbols of destruction. So, as a symbol of life, I chose the bee, because it's said that if it were to become extinct, we would soon disappear with it».
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