Water gives Exterminators of the Year 3000 a concrete reason for its convoys, roadblocks and battles. A desert wasteland becomes legible through the problem of getting one essential resource from place to place. The machinery is battered, the alliances are conditional and every journey exposes the weakness of a settlement. Rather than measuring the film only against larger post-apocalyptic productions, watch how it arranges vehicles, bodies and terrain to make possession of water feel like possession of the future.