‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy

The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to techno-authoritarianism' in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist - one of the movie's unlikely stars - about the events that fed his dystopian vision

It was some time in the early 2000s and Asif Kapadia, already a successful film director, a wunderkind whose first feature in 2001, The Warrior, won the Bafta for outstanding British film, was travelling back from New York.

There's a beautiful, gorgeous sunset over Manhattan. I'm in a limo being taken to the airport. And I was taking photos of Manhattan because I was driving over Brooklyn Bridge and it's just all so cinematic and I became subconsciously aware of the driver watching me in the rear view mirror.