The SDAF Film Series provides an ongoing opportunity to enjoy some of the finest films; current and classics, documentaries and dramas (often one in the same), and everything in-between. The films we screen feature architecture, design, the built environment, the people who create it, and the people that dwell within. 
The focus of the SDAF Film Series is on architectural masterpieces, spaces and monuments that awe and inspire, as well as the workings of cities and the humble structures of ordinary people. Our attention is on the people who design, build and reside in those structures. Concentration is not confined to the visual but also seeks to explore the social, economic, environmental, cultural and human issues that manifest in the built environment – and in doing so advocate the assertion that architecture is a reflection of the society in which it is created.

Sponsorships opportunities for the SDAF Film Series are available. For more information please contact Leslee Schaffer at lschaffer@sdarchitecture.org.  Have a screening suggestion? Do submit it for consideration. We also need volunteers for the Film Series Committee, so if your inner producer, techie, bartender or ticket-taker beckons, please let us know. 

We hope you'll join us for the SDAF Film Series in 2009, please visit again soon for more details!

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Entry to the SDAF Film Series is free; a $10 donation is suggested.

                                                                                                            

Wednesday, December 10

Blade Runner:

The Final Cut

Directed by Ridley Scott

Introduction by

Marty Poirier, FASLA

Doors open at 6:00 p.m.

Films screens at 7:00

Location:
Luce Loft

1037 J Street

San Diego, CA 92101

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Set in the now-near future of 2019, "Blade Runner: The Final Cut” was released in 2007, and is the only version over which the director, Ridley Scott, had complete artistic control.
   

Set in San Angeles, the acid-rain drenched megalopolis of sprawling San Francisco and Los Angeles, the story revolves around a group of escaped ‘replicants’ – perfect humanoid robots who've been developed to work in the harsh environs of outer space.  Possessing super-human strengths, replicants are feared on Earth, and are hunted down and ‘retired’ by special police; Blade Runners.

Blade Runner presents an urban environment that has responded to population growth and climate change in a most cynical, knee-jerk manner – that is, do nothing to prevent, wait for disaster and solve problems with band-aid solutions relying on known technology.  New buildings loom larger and taller – existing structures are retro-fitted with tacked on air and water purification – and basic resources are mined ‘off-world’ as humanity continues to exploit rather than manage and conserve.  The social order on display is one of teeming, disenfranchised, masses of poor shuffling on the ground while the rich live above it all.  Consumerism looms large as the sky is filled with floating Times Square scale airships covered in advertising.

Film critic Pauline Kael was not particularly impressed with the movie, yet said, “Blade Runner has its own look, and a visionary sci-fi movie that has its own look can’t be ignored – it has its place in film history.”