Life Extended

Documentary

58 min.

A documentary art film about one of our time’s most active utopias: The pursuit of immortality.

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The aspiration to extend human life has existed as long as humanity itself. Researchers are convinced that the lifespan of humans will increase radically within a foreseeable future. Some even believe that immortality is within reach for human beings. But what are the consequences of this elongated lifespan? What will our society look like when the average person lives 150 years? Can we handle the resultant overpopulation of elderly people? How will the basic philoso-phical questions about life, death, and time change? Will the speed of our lives slow down when we live twice as long? Will the fear of death increase even more as we push it further away? And will a new social class of long-lived citizens emerge? Life Extended attempts to create an updated version of the static “staircase of life.” A challenging image of the human life span in constant motion and a Memento Mori turned upside down.

  • Director

    Bigert and Bergström

  • Producer

    Bigert, Bergström and Jonas Kellagher

  • Produced by

    Eight Millimetres AB

  • Original title

    Life Extended

  • Format

    58 min.

  • Release

    2008