Interview With "2073" Director/Writer Asif Kapadia

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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"2073" had its world premiere at the 2024 Venice International Film Festival, where it ignited conversation regarding the state of the world today politically, economically, and socially. Blending documentary and narrative feature filmmaking, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Asif Kapadia tells the story of a time traveler who risks his life to change the course of history and save the future of humanity in a dystopian future that is inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 film "La Jetée." Kapadia was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his work on the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in limited release from NEON. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the director and writer of 2073, Asi Kepadija.
0:09.0	I hope someone finds this.
0:23.6	The event wasn't just one thing.
0:26.6	It was a slow creep.
0:29.6	No one said or did anything to stop them.
0:40.3	It's our memory they want to wipe out. This year, 72% of the world is under authoritarian rule.
0:49.3	We're now in a democratic recession, and it's endemic in Europe, in the United States, India,
0:56.5	the Philippines.
0:58.0	Minority is silenced.
1:00.0	Decenters arrested.
1:01.8	Social media cooperative.
1:04.4	We are worth more when we are addicted, polarized, and disinformed than if we are living,
1:10.1	breathing, free citizens.
1:11.6	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Next Best Picture podcast, where I am being joined right now
1:16.0	by the Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Asif Capadia, to talk about 2073.
1:24.1	Asif, how are you today?
1:25.5	I'm good, thanks.
1:26.5	Really good.
1:27.0	Nice to be talking to you.
1:28.9	Absolutely. Thank you so much for being here and for talking to me about this.
1:35.1	Terrifying film? Why'd you got to go do that? Why'd you got to go scare the ever-living crap out of all of us like this?
1:42.5	I'm just like representing what's going on in the world, man.
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