Some people adapt to the system.
Others search for another way to live.
180+ hours filmed
A raw reflection of the world it comes from.
POST HUMAN is a long form observational documentary filmed in La Palma, Canary Islands.
It follows individuals rebuilding identity, structure, and meaning at the edge of collapse and reinvention.
Sometimes serious. Sometimes absurd. Always human.
In development
Currently seeking production partners for financing and festival positioning
The Post Human Manifesto
The world is changing faster than our stories about it.
Systems collapse.
Communities reorganize.
Individuals are forced to adapt in ways they never expected.
Yet most media still explains the world from a distance.
POST HUMAN begins from the opposite place.
It begins inside life.
This series follows people living within transformation. Not experts explaining it, but individuals experiencing it in real time. Farmers, workers, artists, wanderers, communities, and strangers navigating uncertain systems and unfamiliar environments.
There are no formal interviews.
There is no imposed narration.
The camera stays close.
The filmmaker participates, works, listens, and learns within the environments being documented. Daily labor, shared responsibilities, conflict, humor, exhaustion, and cooperation unfold naturally.
The goal is not to present answers.
The goal is to observe what humans become when they must adapt.
Because the future will not be built by theory.
It will be built by people learning how to live again.
POST HUMAN is a document of that process.
A record of ordinary individuals navigating extraordinary transitions.
And a reminder that the most important transformation is not technological.
It is human.
THE STANDALONE FILM
POST HUMAN is currently being developed as a 30–40 minute standalone festival film, serving as the first public phase of the project before expanding into the full documentary series.
This initial cut is designed for the international festival circuit and strategic industry presentation. It functions as both a complete cinematic work and the foundational chapter of a larger long form series currently in development.
At its core, the film is an immersive observational documentary with an unexpectedly human and often darkly funny rhythm. The humor is never imposed. It emerges naturally through proximity, contradiction, misunderstanding, and the absurdity of real life unfolding in unstable systems.
Rather than explaining experience from a distance, the film stays inside it.
No narration.
No experts.
No prescribed solutions.
Only behavior.
The camera remains close enough for audiences to stop watching people as subjects and begin recognizing themselves inside them.
POST HUMAN is a mirror.
A mirror for those navigating collapse, addiction, emotional instability, fractured relationships, and the long, non-linear process of rebuilding.
It is also a bridge between different worlds and ways of living — between city and isolation, dependence and autonomy, collapse and reinvention, survival and dignity.
The film quietly confronts the behaviors we normalize:
power, manipulation, avoidance, repair, tenderness, contradiction, and the roles we perform in order to survive.
More than a documentary, it operates as an internal survival guide.
Not for the apocalypse outside,
but for the one happening within.
The current festival cut is actively seeking production partners, editorial collaborators, post-production support, and psychological advisory consultation to ensure the work is both formally rigorous and ethically responsible.
This includes:
- mid-career editorial collaboration
- festival and distribution strategy
- psychological and behavioral consultation
- production partnership / co-production structure
- impact and institutional funding pathways
The next phase of POST HUMAN is the expansion into a full episodic documentary series, to begin once the festival phase and initial industry partnerships are complete.
The series will deepen the world introduced in the standalone film, allowing the social, emotional, and philosophical tensions of the project to unfold over longer duration and greater intimacy.
The feature cut is the entry point.
The series is what comes after the door opens.
THE ISLAND
Season One of POST HUMAN began filming on a volcanic island in the Canary archipelago.
The island functions not as a backdrop but as a shaping force within the series. Its landscape, limited resources, and diverse communities create an environment where people constantly negotiate independence, collaboration, and survival.
The chapter captures a moment where personal reinvention intersects with environmental reality, documenting individuals adapting to life within a place defined by both rupture and possibility.
CURRENT STATUS:
Development phase (France residency)
In dialogue with Institutions on Island and around Europe
Preparing next production phase
THE METHOD
POST HUMAN is built in deliberate opposition to the rules I was originally taught.
For years, filmmaking was presented to me as control: perfect framing, stable images, clean coverage, polished lighting, and emotional beats designed in advance. I stepped away from that language because I no longer believed it reflected how life is actually lived.
This project chooses presence over polish.
The camera remains inside lived experience rather than observing it from a safe distance. Its movement, instability, and closeness are not technical flaws. They are evidence of real proximity.
The image carries the body behind it.
Breath, hesitation, interruption, imbalance, and sudden shifts in attention become part of the cinematic language. The audience feels that the camera is not performing expertise but surviving the moment alongside the people on screen.
That is what makes the footage honest.
It does not ask people to present themselves.
It waits long enough for presentation to fall apart.
The result is behavior that is not staged, not optimized for image, and often impossible to reproduce once the moment has passed.
This is what makes the material fundamentally human and resistant to replication.
Artificial systems can imitate aesthetics.
They cannot recreate lived contradiction.
They cannot reproduce the emotional residue of trust, fatigue, fear, intimacy, and real-time uncertainty between people sharing space.
POST HUMAN is not interested in performance.
It is interested in what remains after performance fails.
The method is built around trust, duration, and the belief that authenticity emerges not from technical perfection, but from honest presence.
What the audience sees is not a simulation of reality.
It is life unfolding before anyone has had time to decide how they want to be seen.
Director
Adrian Lev Bourliot
contact@levbourliot.com
levbourliot.com
Adrian Lev Bourliot is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores how meaning is constructed, removed, and reinterpreted across both images and lived experience.
Across painting, photography, and film, his practice is rooted in a shared approach: reducing imposed narrative in order to create space for interpretation. In his visual work, this takes the form of asemic writing and image systems that resist fixed meaning. In his films, it translates into an observational method that avoids interviews and explanation, allowing situations to unfold without imposed structure.
Originally from Houston, he developed his filmmaking practice between Texas and Paris after formal studies in film, receiving a Texas Emmy Award for broadcast directing at the age of seventeen.
Rather than imposing conclusions, his work frames situations in ways that allow meaning to emerge through proximity, duration, and personal interpretation.
This approach extends into his current documentary project, POST HUMAN, developed through long-term immersion in alternative communities and transitional environments. There, the same principles apply: identities, systems, and relationships are not defined in advance, but revealed through lived experience.
Working across residencies and shifting environments, Bourliot treats both art-making and filmmaking as processes of inhabiting uncertainty—where structure dissolves and new forms begin to take shape.
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Support the Project
POST HUMAN has completed its first embedded filming phase, with over 180 hours of documentary footage and multiple principal participants.
The project is now entering a strategic development period. Conversations are underway with institutions on the island, regarding future production support.
At the same time, development continues from an artist residency in the south of France, where the material is being shaped into its first public form.
This phase focuses on preparing a festival-ready cut and development materials to present the project to international festivals, production partners, and long-form distributors.
Early positioning is critical.
It will determine how the project evolves — whether as a feature documentary, an episodic series, or a hybrid format.
Independent support helps stabilize this stage and allows the work to continue without interruption.
Funding currently supports:
• archival storage and protection of filmed material
• editing infrastructure and system upgrades
• replacement of damaged filming equipment
• collaboration with editors and post-production advisors
• preparation of festival submissions and development materials
• the next phase of filming upon return to the island
Support does not influence the direction of the project.
It allows the work to continue with stability, care, and independence while it is positioned for its next stage.
For collaborations or production inquiries: contact@levbourliot.com
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