The sci-fi genre is more alive and popular than ever.
Just last weekend, Gareth Edwards’ original blockbuster The Creator debuted in multiplexes nationwide, while more arty movies like The Beast and Poor Things premiered at the 2023 New York Film Festival to almost universal acclaim. Now more than ever, sci-fi speaks to our particular moment in time, when the rise of AI technology magnifies humankind’s universal concerns about identity, aging, and mortality.
Garth Davis: The architecture of that, of connecting the personal to something as large as climate change, is something that very much excited me. Because if you get it right, there can be a spirituality in the storytelling; you can feel something that’s not in the words. There’s something under the surface of the film where you feel a deep connection with us on the planet. You find all these lovely rhythms within the main characters’ actions that reflect the actions of the planet.
With Foe, I use AI to show how Hen explores her marriage in a really interesting way. We didn’t set out to make a movie about AI, but it enables us to really explore a relationship in a way that you just couldn’t ordinarily. I think that’s what was profoundly exciting to us. I’m very aware that bleak, dystopian futures are overdone in science fiction, but I just thought this was something that also felt very imminent. I feel like we are going to be dealing with these things sooner rather than later. It’s going to be the reality of the way we live.
But yeah, Virginia Woolf was definitely something that I brought up . I love those kinds of movies where the performances are so noisy and alive and imperfect and brave. I was very encouraging of the actors to remember those kinds of classic performances. With Foe, I really had a chance to kind of bring back all of those classic cinema elements that I grew up with and loved when I was younger.
It was probably one of the most challenging things I’ve done, but also one of the most exciting things as well. There are two realities in the movie: there’s the reality of what viewers are seeing for the first time, and then there’s the actual reality of the story, which is gradually revealed throughout the movie.
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