FILM CLASS
Film Class With Professor Mocha
Sunday, March 9
5pm
Free For All
More than a movie night, enjoy a pre and post film discussion with New Bedford's favorite film professor, Dr. Mocha J. Herrup.
Dr. Mocha J. Herrup (aka Mocha,) is a film historian, documentary filmmaker, and founder of the New Bedford Film Society.
This Month:
Blade Runner (1982)
Directed by Ridley Scott
Ex-cop Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) hunts down fugitive human-like androids called “replicants” in a dystopian, twenty-first century Los Angeles, one where neon saturates the crowded landscape and traffic woes are quelled by endless skyways for flying vehicles. Based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the film and its story popularized the now-classic cyberpunk conflict about the boundary between human consciousness and artificial intelligence. Working with an innovative art department, director Ridley Scott embraced a look that merged old and new technology; industrial designer, illustrator, and “visual futurist” Syd Mead developed much of the film’s groundbreaking aesthetic. [Source: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures / PST Art]
This program is supported in part by a grant from the New Bedford Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.