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 (Amy) 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, Minority Report) 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."
Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (Amy) 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, Minority Report) 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."
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00:00I hope someone finds this the event wasn't just one thing it was a slow
00:28creep. No one said or did anything to stop them.
00:37It's our memory they want to wipe out.
00:44This year 72% of the world is under authoritarian rule. We're now in a
00:50democratic recession and it's endemic in Europe, in the United States, India, the
00:56Philippines. Minorities silenced, dissenters arrested, social media
01:02co-operative. We are worth more when we are addicted, polarized and disinformed
01:08than if we are living breathing free citizens.
01:13Where in New San Francisco have you visited?
01:22If you don't have facts you can't have truth. Without truth you can't have trust.
01:31We have faced wars and famines and genocides but this is bigger than any of
01:36that.
01:43It's too late for me, may not be too late for you.