Connectivity: Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049 shares the bold visual direction and philosophically-rich narrative of Ridley Scott’s original sci-fi classic, picking up the story thirty years later.

Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 film follows K (Ryan Gosling), a replicant “blade runner” tasked with retiring older models.

K’s discovery of a long-buried secret leads him across a desolate future landscape in search of the long-missing former blade runner Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford).

As K navigates this neon-soaked dystopia, the film layers its mystery with larger questions of longing and intimacy.

Ana de Armas appears as Joi, K’s holographic A.I. girlfriend, whose programmed affection raises complicated ideas about desire and the porous boundaries between real and artificial connection.

Blade Runner 2049 deepens its predecessor’s inquiry into connectivity in a world engineered to deny such bonds.

This screening will be accompanied by a critical and historical introduction by Carsey-Wolf Center Assistant Director Miguel Penabella, who will discuss this film’s relationship to our yearlong programming series Connectivity.