After the End

After the End is a time-lapse film that chronicles a new creation story for Australia, one of the world’s largest producers of fossil fuels and the raw materials required for contemporary technologies. Beginning 50,000 years ago, the film explores the journey of the earliest First Nations communities, through colonisation and its history of resource extraction, to a hopeful sci-fi future when new energy infrastructures emerge and stolen lands are returned.
In this future powered by renewables, island communities form above oil rigs turned into artificial reefs, while a speculative Indigenous space industry launches from retired gas plants. After the End follows the First Peoples who return to the land, reclaim their sovereignty, and weave these machines into their new future world.