Penumbra, like the 43-minute In the Land of Drought, focuses on “what comes after us” and addresses the relationship between man and his impact on the world, looking back from a distant future imagined in the post-anthropocene, an era that is the result of significant human influence on the planet. This time, it seems that the human species has left Earth for good, trying its luck on a distant, hyper-urbanized desert planet. Things seem to have gone wrong again on the alien colony, and only a few frantically constructed space sites seem to offer shelter. On the planet’s surface we see abandoned mega-cities in a dystopian landscape, as well as circular crop fields located in the desert areas surrounding them that served to feed the last inhabitants. The camera hovers over the desolate landscape and the ruined megacities in a meditative manner, connoting surveillance. Satellite/drone/aerial views eliminate the human perspective, keeping viewers at a distance throughout the video.