Out of Breath: Timely Issues and Old Gender Tropes in Seth Larney's '2067'

Seth Larney's indie sci-fi feature debut depicts a world in which oxygen is a limited commodity and the world is ravaged by the effects of anthropogenic climate change. But while its ultimately hopeful ecological message is laudable, Bronwyn Lovell finds that the film's depiction of women – and gender roles in the world of the future – remains captive to the limited perspective of the science fiction genre's male-dominated past.

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Amazon logging, deforestation, 2019–2020 Australian bushfire season, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Deborah Mailman, Arcadia, independent production, Blade Runner, Star Wars