synopsis
At a faded resort with swimming pools, palm trees and halls adorned with crystal chandeliers, several hundred older men and women have gathered for a longevity conference to swallow handfuls of pills, work out and attend lectures on extending their lives. Joshua Oppenheimer captures their ageing bodies in silent, static compositions, interspersed with close-up images of organisms under a microscope. These tiny creatures struggle to survive, much like the ageing people beneath the harsh Californian sun. Meticulously composed yet unsettling, the film peers into a world where the fear of one’s own mortality dissolves into a collective illusion of immortality.
“The Revolution Against Death is my poem about these fears, about mortality, capitalism, desperate denial – and our universal longing for communion and love.” — Joshua Oppenheimer (Interaction)
biography
Joshua Oppenheimer (1974) is an American-British director based in Malmö. He is known for his Oscar-nominated documentaries The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014). Following his post-apocalyptic fiction musical The End (2024), his latest short film returns to the themes of self-deception and human mortality.film details
| director: | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| producer: | Signe Byrge Sørensen |
Film at festival
| premiere type: | Czech Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2026 |
| section: | Constellations |
| language: | English |
| subtitles: | Czech |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| original title: | The Revolution Against Death |
| country: | Denmark, Sweden |
| year: | 2026 |
| running time: | 23 min. |
