PROYECCIÓN. “Film designs cycle: Blade Runner”

The “Film Designs” series at the Filmoteca, organized by the Institut Valencià de Cultura within the framework of World Design Capital Valencia 2022, continues in June with the science fiction classic Blade Runner (1982), directed by Ridley Scott.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the powerful Tyrell Corporation created beings identical to humans but superior in strength and agility, known as “replicants”. After a group rebelled, the replicants were banished. After a serious incident, a retired replicant hunter, Rick Deckard, is called upon to find and execute some of the rebellious androids.

“Loosely inspired by Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and set in Los Angeles in 2019, Blade Runner is especially memorable for the spectacular and detailed design of the city’s views: monumental from above, smoky and rainy from below, extremely dense in the streets and interiors, and as erotically charged as a landscape invented by Josef von Sternberg.” JONATHAN ROSENBAUM, Chicago Reader, 1/11/2007.