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Director Asif Kapadia On Why He Wanted His Sci-Fi Docudrama ‘2073’ To Feel Like “A Punch In The Stomach” – Venice Film Festival
Director Asif Kapadia on '2073,' his dystopian docudrama starring Samatha Morton that is premiering at the Venice Film Festival.
Kapadia scans the planet and sees alarming signs — in climate change, the rise of authoritarianism, and the growth of technology as a means of manipulating the public and suppressing dissent. Morton’s character flashes back to documentary footage that could be pulled from recent newscasts – global warming-driven wildfires and floods; urban landscapes in Gaza, Ukraine or Syria decimated by bombing; tech titans like Elon Musk becoming wealthier by the millisecond. But there are heroes too – a handful of investigative journalists including Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa, and Carole Cadwalladr, both of whom have examined the deleterious impact of social media on democratic institutions.
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