Two billion years ahead of us, a future race of humans finds itself on the verge of extinction. Almost all that is left in the world are lone and surreal monuments, beaming their message into the wilderness.

Last and First Men is a 70 minutes film-essay inspired by the 1930 novel of the same name by British SF author William Olaf Stapledon. Narrated by Tilda Swinton the film is a mixture of brutalist architecture imagery and the original score by Johann Johannson alongside sound artist and composer Yair Elazar Glotman.

Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969–2018) was a prolific composer, who wrote music for a wide array of media including theatre, dance, television and films. His work is stylised by its blending of classical instrumentation with electronic elements.
A great deal of Jóhannsson’s work in his last years had been closely entwined with 7ilm: in 2010 he paired up with American avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison on the critically acclaimed The Miners’ Hymns. He has also scored a number of major cinematic hits, including Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners (2013), Sicario (2015), the score of which was nominated for all major awards, and Arrival (2016), which earned him Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. His other notable film credits include James Marsh’s Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything (2014), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.

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