Midnight Oil Studios has reviewed 2081--and loves it:
This is simply one of the most powerful portrayals of the modern totalitarian state on film. Visionary as if a new Peter Weir had appeared on the movie making scene. A film financed by the Moving Picture Institute perhaps the most powerful force in films for the Libertarian point of view and philosophy, psychology.[...]
The scenes are lit in a spectacular manner. Perhaps some of the best art direction I've seen in any current films. The music by the incomparable Kronos Quartet. They set a perfect background to this brilliant short film. Perhaps the most powerful short film I have ever seen.
The film 2081 marks the arrival of a film company called the Moving Picture Institute (MPI) as the major film voice for the libertarian philosophy.
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It will be interesting to watch what future films MPI will create. They have set the bar pretty high with their entry into the current political arena with 2081. It offers a powerful commentary of an equalitarian world of the future. One wonders if they will be able to continue to spin out brilliant and powerful stories like 2081. It offers that one scene that our Founding Fathers fought against. In effect, it offers a future version of what the Founders of America wanted to avoid. Perhaps it offers a vision of their worst nightmare.
With this powerful film from MPI there is the announcement that a new voice has entered the arena for the Libertarian cause. It's the powerful voice of the young filmmaker Chandler Tuttle. It is a voice that the Founding Fathers would most likely endorse. The ideas for MPI films really stories from the ideas (their philosophy and psychology) of freedom rather than equality. This film marks a powerful statement to the powers of equality in the modern world.
What will be the story about freedom?
Thanks so much, guys.
2081 is now available from Amazon.com.