Trailer Park: 2073

The dystopian sci-fi-speculative nonfiction film “2073” looks like nightmare fuel for anyone frightened by the current state of the world.

I just watched the chilling new trailer for the upcoming film from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (Amy), 2073, and my heart is in my throat.

It’s 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, audiences will be transported 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 promises an urgent, unshakable vision of a dystopic future that could very well be our own.

Kapadia is an Academy Award, Grammy, and four-time BAFTA-winning Producer / Director / Writer who works across film and television. He is known for his emotionally engaging, visually striking, genre-breaking films exploring characters living in extreme circumstances, fighting against a corrupt or broken system and the price of fame. He has worked in drama and documentaries and is best known for his trilogy of narratively driven, archive-constructed documentaries: SENNA, AMY, and DIEGO MARADONA.

PS – It’s also a NEON production. If you’ve been paying any attention, you know that this powerhouse studio has been killing it with thoughtfully scripted, thought-provoking, highly original, gorgeously crafted films that can’t be missed.