2073 + Recorded Q&A

This film contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

This screening features an exclusive recorded Q&A with director Asif Kapadia and journalist Carole Cadwalladr. Regular screenings are also available.

Inspired by Chris Marker’s La Jetée and with overtones of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, Asif Kapadia (Amy, Diego Maradona) delivers an unsettling commentary on the state of the world today… and tomorrow.

It’s the year 2073 where the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarised police roam the wrecked streets, while humans hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. 

In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and non-fiction, Kapadia transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present. 

Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton (Minority Report) plays a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past—a past that happens to be our present, visualised through contemporary footage interconnecting today’s global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big tech, inequality, and our global climate crisis. 2073 is an urgent, unshakable vision of a dystopic future that could very well be our own.