A Sci-Fi Meditation on Mortality
Review of Neon Dance’s Last and First Men at Dance City, Newcastle
The looming, black and white cinematography of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s last and first film provides a shadowy landscape of brutalist monoliths, for three performers to exist and evolve within.
A conceptual audiovisual poem, the backdrop of Last and First Men brings to mind myriad sci-fi references from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Alien to Arrival, the latter of…
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