The Last White Bisons

The twenties of the twenty-first century. An age of late capitalism. An age of ruthless exploitation, of devouring the planet’s resources, of destruction, an age of climate change. An age of water and food shortages on one side, and sickening excess on the other. The world’s wealth lies in the hands of elites who exploit people globally and relentlessly — and soon, humanity itself may no longer be needed. Human dignity cries out to the sky, but the sky remains deaf. The filmmakers raise a series of questions: Who is considered redundant today, and by whom? Who among us is unnecessary? Am I the surplus one, or are you? Do we even exist if we neither produce nor consume? How thin is the line between being useful and being disposable? Performed by six dancers and three musicians, and captured through fifteen cameras, the piece unfolds as both an aesthetic exploration and a philosophical inquiry into the boundaries between necessity and redundancy in contemporary society. Trapped within an anonymous space that offers no clear exit, the performers navigate shifting relations of visibility and agency. The fi lm is based on Ilija Trojanow’s essay The Superfluous Man: An Essay on Human Dignity in Late Capitalism.