Icarus Films teams with the KimStim Collection for the Nov.
22 DVD debut of filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s chilling documentary titled Homo
Sapiens.
There are the sounds of waves crashing, the rustle of the
wind, a bird flutters its wings, crickets chirp and not a human voice is to be
heard. Yet everywhere there are the
signs that man — homo sapiens — had once passed this way. Abandoned buildings, empty churches and more
… vision after vision of a post-apocalyptic world; devoid of human beings and
yet here we are.
Some might call award-winning documentary filmmaker Nikolaus
Geyrhalter’s latest work, “experimental” or “minimalistic” (since there is no
dialog, not even narration), which is true, but a better description might be that
of “chilling.”
As his travel snippets unfold,
an eerie sense of foreboding is at hand … the sights and the sounds (so very
well done by his sound and audio team) carry the viewer into a sort of
“Twilight Zone” world where the things that were built with a purpose — that
had meaning — are all that remains of us for some future alien race to sort
thought. 
Also getting a Nov. 22 DVD release from Icarus Films is the
KimStim Collection presentation of the late Chantal Akerman’s final feature
film, her 2012 film adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s first novel (published in
1895), Almayer’s Folly.
Akerman updates the proceeding from the Victorian/British
colonial period of the late 19th Stanislas Merhar (Dry Cleaning, The Captive,
etc.) draws the role of central role of Almayer, with Aurora Marion (her film
debut … subsequently: A Wedding, Matriarchy) as his
daughter, Nina, who rejects her father’s European roots in favor of the
rebellious Dain (Zac Adriansolo).
Century to the post-World War II
turmoil of the Malay Peninsula (filmed on location in Cambodia).
Almayer’s Folly is presented in French with English
subtitles.
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