Screening Series in Partnership with the Visual Effects Society: BladeRunner (1982)
ECU and the Visual Effects Society are partnering to screen selections from the Visual Effects Society’s “Top 70 Most Influential Visual Effects Films of All Time.”
Open to Public?
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Join Dr. Alla Gadassik, Dr. Jordan Gowanlock, and the Visual Effects Society for a public screening series dedicated to visual and special effects. Every other Wednesday this fall, we select a film from the Visual Effects Society’s “Top 70 Most Influential Visual Effects Films of All Time.” Each screening is accompanied by an introduction by a member of the VES and is followed by audience discussion after the film. Guests have so far have included VFX supervisors, animators, and one Oscar winner.
Oct 29th: Bladerunner (1982) “The Final Cut”
The film that popularized the cyberpunk genre and inflected it with a rain-soaked, neon-lit noir style. Special effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull used motion control cameras, detailed matte paintings, and extensive miniatures to render a dystopian vision of future (now past) 2019 Los Angeles. Trumbull’s work on 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) inspired a generation of effects artists and filmmakers, and his work is every bit as impressive here.