Last Things + A Foot, A Mouth, A Hundred Billion Stars

Under the heading “Films that Sell Themselves”, Last Things can be described as “evolution and extinction from the P.O.V. of a rock.”

Inspired by 2 novellas written by J.-H. Rosny, the joint pseudonym of the Boex brothers, Last Things is the kind of film where the more you understand, the less consequential you feel. And that’s exactly the point.

More chin-stroking follows the film as artist Stuart Whipps asks: is a stone alive? What would it mean for a stone to be diseased? And in that case, could it be cured? A Foot, A Mouth, A Hundred Billion Stars teases out a series of interconnected histories, stories and possible futures, featuring all manner of artefacts from the Lapworth Museum of Geology archive.