Time and space

As a film-maker, Kogonada first made his mark with a series of video essays dissecting the cinema of the greats in many simple, elegant montages with such titles as “Mirrors of Bergman”, “Eyes of Hitchcock” and “Hands of Bresson”.

Now the Korean-American director with the mononymous professional pseudonym – lifted from Kôgo Noda, the prolific mid-20th-century Japanese screenwriter – has a rapidly expanding oeuvre to call his own.

After his 2017 debut feature Columbus, a restrained family drama that also pondered the distinctive architecture of the titular city in Indiana, he has now delivered both his second feature and an epic television drama within weeks of each other.

The film, a bittersweet, low-key sci-fi story loosely adapted from an Alexander Weinstein short story about an American family a century into the future losing the android – or “techno sapiens” – who has become like a son and brother.