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I have seen Last Things at Docaviv film festival. Deborah's work truly pushes the genre boundaries of documentary cinema. This is an existentialist parable based on the theory of mineral evolution, an exciting mix of documentary and science fiction. Through transcending the conventions of science documentaries, Deborah achieves an effect that is so lacking in the most thoughtful films about space and the origin of life - Last Things produces a defamiliarization not just of human condition, but of the very nature of life and matter. In this sense, Deborah's work is the one documentary I have been looking for for a very long time! Furthermore, the visual merits of the work as well deserve to be highlighted - thus, the science of mineralogy appears as a truly exciting subjec which is the way in which mineralogy is very rarely described in general (no offense to mineralogists)