Messages to a Post Human Earth

2021 • Directed by

May Abdalla

Documentary

In 1981, the Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem wrote an essay for the Human Interference Task Force. This body was discussing a formidable problem: how can warnings about the dangers of stored radioactive waste still be understood in ten thousand years’ time? Languages die out and are forgotten; and by that time, no one knows whether there will be any people at all.