After Yang / Moon
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Summer Sci-Fi. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
After Yang (2021)
Writer-director Kogonada’s highly refined visual sensibility yields here a subtler variant of dystopian science fiction, call it cozy futurism. The cocoon of tasteful design and supportive technology that envelops Jake (Colin Farrell), Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith) and their adoptive daughter Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja) soothes all but the most mild domestic anxieties until their beloved family android, Yang (Justin H. Min), breaks down and they must deal with the unexpected mess of emotions that follows on their own. From this traumatic glitch, Kagonada draws a layered exploration of grief, memory and the nature of identity in a world that, for all its advances, feels achingly close to our own.
DCP, color, 96 min. Director: Kogonada. Screenwriter: Kogonada. With: Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Justin H. Min.
Moon (2009)
Sam Rockwell delivers a magnetic performance as Sam Bell, an astronaut coming undone at the end of a long-term solo mission on the Moon in director Duncan Jones’ feature debut. Overseeing a lunar mining operation with only the station’s AI computer to keep him company, Sam looks forward to returning home to his wife and daughter until an accident leads him to confront the nature of his existence. Duncan incorporates a number of familiar contemporary sci-fi elements into his story — corporate greed, environmentalism, the dangers of technology — but it’s Rockwell’s turn — and turn and turn again — as a man struggling to understand himself that is the film’s real center of gravity.
35mm, color, 97 min. Director: Duncan Jones. Screenwriter: Nathan Parker. With: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott.
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