Blade Runner – Director's Cut

The Brief

Ridley Scott's science fiction classic with an introduction by artist Ann Lislegaard. Blade Runner takes us to a dystopian, futuristic Los Angeles where the boundaries between human, machine and animal are dissolving. In a rain-soaked and hyper-technological cityscape, we follow the "blade runner" Rick Deckard, who is tasked with tracking down and eliminating so-called replicants – artificially created beings developed for work in space colonies, and which are almost impossible to distinguish from humans. At a lingering pace, the film explores artificial life, memories, empathy and existence, but also the loss of nature and biological diversity in a world where real animals have almost disappeared and are replaced by lifelike robot animals, so-called animoids. Blade Runner is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? from 1968, and is considered a masterpiece within the science fiction genre. Blade Runner exists in various versions, we are showing Ridley Scott's Director's Cut from 1992. The screening will be introduced by a conversation between Norwegian media artist Ann Lislegaard and Susanne Østby Sæther, senior curator at Henie Onstad Art Centre. Lislegaard is currently presenting her solo exhibition ANIMOID at Henie Onstad Art Centre and the group exhibition Grammars of Light at Astrup Fearnley Museum.