Drones fill the orange-tinted sky as citizens are forced to hide from authorities in Neon’s 2073 trailer. Directed by Oscar winner Asif Kapadia (Best Documentary, Amy), 2073‘s trailer teases a terrifying world that is, unfortunately, not all that difficult to imagine. As the trailer declares, “This is not fiction. This is not a documentary. This is a warning.”
Neon offers this synopsis:
“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 and speculative nonfiction, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment. Two-time Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton (In America, Sweet and Lowdown) plays a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past—a past that happens to be our present, visualized through contemporary 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.”
Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice) and Hector Hewer also star. Director Kapadia and Tony Grisoni wrote the screenplay.
“2073 is about a feeling of dread at what is happening and being normalized around the world. The film started after seeing Brexit happen through lies and corruption in the UK, I felt I had to make a film to understand why the world seemed to be moving towards lies, authoritarianism, violence. I interviewed journalists around the world, was I going crazy, or was something happening? The journalists agreed, there was a global trend, a democratic recession, technology played a huge part and this was also aiding the destruction of the planet’s ecosystem,” said Kapadia in support of the film screening at the Venice Film Festival. “2073 has come out of those interviews and research. My aim was to connect the dots between many complex issues and countries in a single cinematic film.”
Kapadia’s behind-the-scenes team includes cinematographer Bradford Young, editors Chris King and Sylvie Landra, production designer Robin Brown, and costume designer Verity May Lane.
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