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The Habitat is a metaphysical parable on the human pursuit towards destruction and the costs an individual pays for this pursuit, especially one that one leaves a mark one human psyche.

The movie starts as a quasi-documentary film, with images portraying the destructive technological nad industrial progress, showing frames of smoking chimneys, crowded urban agglomerations and traffic concourses which facilitate the destruction process.

The journey through urban and industrial passages following the video camera brings us to a place which is gradualny subjected to destruction, somewhere in the periphery of the progress. This is a place where the main character of the movie, a woman of unusual sensitivity and empathy for the surrounding world, happens to subsist.
Living in this desolate place, which used to bustle with life, she is now trying to measure the time of her life with a little spoon, separating herself from the emptiness that comes with the progress, devouring her decadent reality.

Time resembles a speeding train, it moves through the women’s seasons of life (early and late fall, early spring), arriving at the seemingly safe backcountry.
From season to season, we can see how her wonderful world fades away, we become indifferent witnesses to destruction. Our eyes observe deserted wilderness, traces of former civilisations which fell prey to the progress.
What is left of the progress are piling up ruins, abandoned and decaying cars, deserted buildings, because most of those who lived there have found an apparently better place to exist. We see the environment changed by the industry.
One of the frames shows a road that comes to an end. Is this the end of the mankind?
Psychological determinants of the hero make her see this self-destructive progress in a peculiar way. Her sensitivity makes her interpret this phenomenon in her own way.
She feels responsible for the death of the world which surrounds her.

  • Lethargus
    Director
  • Lethargus
    Writer
  • Lethargus
    Producer
  • Iwona Gasiul
    Key Cast
    "woman "
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Other
  • Runtime:
    48 hours 25 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    February 27, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    Poland
  • Country of Filming:
    Poland
  • Language:
    English
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Lethargus


Lethargus is an filmmaker whose art reflects his fascination with a post-apocalyptic world in a dreamlike convention, strongly inspired by the aesthetics of the 1990s and late 1980s, especially B-grade cinema. His works carry both the atmosphere of those years and use film techniques from decades ago, giving them new life.
Stage I: Experimentation and Discovery
Beginning his artistic journey in the 1990s, Lethargus explored painting and computer graphics. But in 2004, inspired by a collaboration with a former schoolmate, he eventually abandoned these fields in favor of film.
Stage II: Experiments and Trials
Between 2004 and 2007, Lethargus searched for his own style and experimented with different forms of art. His breakthrough came in 2008, when he and another cinematographer created the short film experiment "Cellartrope," which became a turning point in his career.
Stage III: Exploring New Frontiers
In 2016-2019, Lethargus focused on 1960s noir stylized cinema and music videos inspired by B-grade productions of the early 1990s. His film "Habitat" won acclaim both in the underground and at film screenings.
Update: Evolution and Recognition
After 2020, Lethargus produced his most ambitious project, the film "The Desolation," which combines elements of post-apocalyptic cinema with a David Lynch-style dreamlike aesthetic. The production received recognition in the film underground and was even noticed by foreign portals dedicated to post-apocalyptic cinema.
Presence and Continuing Creativity
As of 2021, Lethargus continues his exploration of post-apocalyptic cinema, however in a new, rougher edition, harkening back to the B-grade productions of the early 1990s. His works, such as videos for Deep-pression Formation and the band SchizoDeath, and intros for podcasts, continue to impress with their originality and artistic depth.
Lethargus remains one of independent cinema's most intriguing filmmakers, continuing his journey through the recesses of the human psyche and dystopian worlds, exploring new techniques and inspirations at every stage of his work.

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