/lit/ - Literature

>>17007221
>>17008355
Just finished watching it.
It's a SF art film, very slow paced with Tilda Swinton narrating and B&W imagery from scultpures and Soviet era architecture from Yugoslavia or somewhere, all accompanied with mellow and trippy orchestral music.

I haven't read Stapledon's book (I know Arthur C. Clarke rated it very highly, as one of the "most imaginative books ever" or something), but the premise is that 3 billion years into the future, humanity has evolved and moved to Neptune to escape a Solar catastrophe. The film explores this evolution with few bits of information about their culture and how they set out to seed the stars. They have strange technologies or telepathic powers and they're able to contact us, the first men, before their known universe collapses under a new threat (a supernova).
I liked it very much, I don't mind slow paced movies with no action. There must be 10 or so pages of dialogue in a 1h10m film so mileage may vary a lot. I'm a sucker for anything about the scale of the universe and our tiny human fate.