Second Trailer for ‘2073’ Doc About Fighting to Stop Climate Change
by Alex Billington
November 11, 2024
Source: YouTube
“We are worth more when we are addicted, polarized, and misinformed… than we are if we are living, breathing, free citizens.” Neon revealed a second trailer for 2073, a frightening doc about climate change and the destructive future we’re headed towards. Now set for a release in December in the US. It’s the latest documentary film from Oscar-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia, known for 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.” This premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival – where I saw it. Alas despite being a good idea, the film is rather boring and won’t have much of an impact. Sadly. Though we do need to wake up and do more.
Here’s the second official trailer (+ poster) for Asif Kapadia’s doc 2073, direct from Neon’s YouTube:
You can watch the first official trailer for Asif Kapadia’s 2073 doc right here for even more footage.
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 release Kapadia’s 2073 in select US theaters starting December 27th, 2024 this year.
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