Director Asif Kapadia On Why He Wanted His Sci-Fi Docudrama ‘2073’ To Feel Like “A Punch In The Stomach” – Venice Film Festival
deadline.comIn 50 years, what state will the world be in? Based on current indications, it’s hard to avoid answering, “Pretty grim.” That’s certainly the perspective of Oscar-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia, who imagines a dystopian future in his new film 2073, a hybrid documentary-drama that premieres later today at the Venice Film Festival.
Kapadia scans the planet and sees alarming signs — in climate change, the rise of authoritarianism, and the growth of technology as a means of manipulating the public and suppressing dissent.
A trifecta from hell. “It is literally like a dream project, but it’s also a nightmare project. It really is,” Kapadia tells Deadline. “It’s like a ‘cry for help’ film, which is hard to do when they take years to put together and to finance and to cut and to somehow make them work as a film, while also keeping the kind of emotion that you start with, which is what the f*ck is going on in the world?” Kapadia sets his film 49 years from the present day, in a post-apocalyptic time. [Watch the trailer below].
A woman (Samantha Morton) lives hand-to-mouth in an abandoned mall; surveillance drones track her moves and those of other bedraggled humans scattered here and there.
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