First Trailer for Asif Kapadia’s New Doc ‘2073’ About Climate Change
by Alex Billington
September 2, 2024
Source: YouTube
“If you don’t have facts, you can’t have truth.” Neon has revealed a trailer for 2073, a compelling new doc about climate change and the destructive future we’re headed towards. The film is the latest documentary creation from Oscar-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia, known for his docs Senna, Amy, Diego Maradona, and others. 2073 is a hybrid doc – featuring a live-action sci-fi segment starring Samantha Morton living in a dystopian future ruined by climate change & authoritarianism (the year 2073); along with doc segments showing how we could get there, giving clear-eyed facts about the rise of right-wing authoritarianism and libertarianism worldwide – which won’t stop climate change. “Through a genre-busting mix of archive and drama Ghost witnesses the terrifying threats facing us: a Democratic recession, the rise of neo-fascism, the Climate Disaster and the intrusion of surveillance technology. This is not science fiction. This is happening now.” The film is premiering at the 2024 Venice Film Festival this month, and there’s no final release date set yet. Another potent film to jolt us into action and remind us we must do more to stop a harrowing future.
Here’s the first official trailer (+ poster) for Asif Kapadia’s doc 2073, direct from Neon’s YouTube:
It’s the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarized police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction & speculative nonfiction, Oscar-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment. Samantha Morton plays a survivor besieged by visions of the past—a past that happens to be our present, visualized through real footage interconnecting today’s global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big tech, inequality, and global climate change. 2073 is an urgent, unshakable vision of a dystopic future that could very well be our own. 2073 is directed by British filmmaker Asif Kapadia, director of the doc films Uneternal City, Senna, Amy, Diego Maradona, and the recent series “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” and “Federer: Twelve Final Days“. Produced by Asif Kapadia and George Chignell of Lafcadia Prods. This is premiering at the 2024 Venice Film Festival right now. Neon will debut Kapadia’s 2073 in theaters sometime soon – stay tuned for news. Look any good?
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