Nautilus

Unlike its close relative the octopus, the Nautilus has a poor memory and yet it has managed to exist for half a billion years. Our ancestors have been on Earth for about six million years, while modern humans evolved in the last 200,000. Civilization as it is generally understood today began approximately 6,000 years ago, and the industrialization of the natural world began its accelerating trajectory in the past two centuries. According to fossil records the chambered Nautilus has remained fundamental unchanged for about five hundred million years. What I wonder will the records show of our presence on planet Earth?

Film Maker
Tate, Kent
Year
2016
Country
Caanda
Length
6
Language
No dialogue
Category
Anthropocene, Earth, Ecology, environment, Landscape, Memory, Time + Space
Genre
experimental, short