Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.
Direction
Kapadia's doc background bleeds into dystopian texture.
Cinematography
Burned amber palette that actually hurts to look at.
Director
Asif Kapadia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Marker's La Jetée was 28 minutes of still photos; Kapadia expands it into a feature that weaponizes our own footage against us.
The 'absurd' keyword isn't wrong—there's a darkly funny streak about influencer culture that lands like a brick through a window.
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