The Last White Bisons
by Sašo Podgoršek
Zadnji beli bizoni, digital DCP, 1,77:1 (16:9), 25, c, 70 min
SI, HR
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The twenties of the twenty-first century.
An age of late capitalism.
An age of ruthless exploitation, of devouring the planet’s resources, of destruction, an age of climate change.
An age of water and food shortages on one side, and sickening excess on the other.
The world’s wealth lies in the hands of elites who exploit people globally and relentlessly — and soon, humanity itself may no longer be needed.
Human dignity cries out to the sky, but the sky remains deaf.
The filmmakers raise a series of questions:
Who is considered redundant today, and by whom?
Who among us is unnecessary?
Am I the surplus one, or are you?
Do we even exist if we neither produce nor consume?
How thin i…
Instead of the industrial Trbovlje, this time a blank white space. Six dancers, three musicians, and fifteen cameras. Am I the one who is unnecessary, or are you? Do we even exist if we neither produce nor consume? How thin is the line between the useful and the superfluous?