The found footage film tells the story of an archetypal human life using stock footage and images, sourced from various countries and taken over the course of a century. Sources include microscopic medical footage, portraits, and newsreels. The images include the inside of the body, the first cry of a new-born baby, and archive footage of ritual celebration and the carnage of war. The story follows the human life cycle from birth to death. There is no spoken dialogue. All scenes are set to a score composed by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead.
Paul Thomas Anderson saw the film at its Rotterdam Festival premiere and said it was "like I was in a trance. A wonderful collection of the two simple things a film has to work with: pictures and music. It's a moving, scary and hypnotic potpourri of images and an experience that gets more lucid the more you watch."[2] Anderson would go on to hire Greenwood as a composer for many of his films.
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