How A24’s After Yang Depicts the Film’s Futuristic Asian Culture Through Fashion

After Yang is a futuristic science fiction film in which there aren’t any stunts, space travel, or spandex. In fact, it’s so lacking in conventional sci-fi signifiers that you may not immediately notice it’s set in the future at all—and that’s exactly what costume designer Arjun Bhasin and writer/director Kogonada intended. In crafting the A24 film’s vision of the future (the year and locale of which are unspecified) the objective was not so much the invention of a new frontier, but the hopeful speculation of “a return,” as Bhasin relays over a Zoom call. “The intention was to create a… Read Full Article