Theres a disturbing plausibility to directorAsif Kapadias docudrama2073, which just premiered out of competition at theVenice Film Festival.
Were not in America anymore.
Welcome to New San Francisco Capital of the Americas.
‘2073’Neon
Old geographic boundaries have dissolved, apparently, but not because weve all come together as one.
No, the S.F.
Maybe so, maybe not.
Samantha Morton in ‘2073’Neon
Flashback-like sequences suggest how everything went wrong and this is where the documentary element comes in.
Contemporary news footage shows wildfires, floods and massive storms a gesture towards the ferocious impact of climate change.
Kapadia manages to knit together the documentary footage and the fictional story into a cohesive whole.
She then asks, Isnt this a science fiction movie?
Kapadia immediately cuts to Morton in what is, of course, a sci-fi movie.
The effect is eerie and unsettling, as it should be.
As the trailer for2073puts it, This is not fiction.
This is not documentary.
This is a warning.
