How Reel is it? Filmvorführung und Diskussion: Blade Runner

In the organizer's words:

With the film series "How Reel is it?", the Munich Urban Colab becomes a time machine - and invites you to travel back to the future. In collaboration with the future platform 1E9, we are subjecting cinematic visions to a "reality check" with the help of experts from various fields. We want to discuss how likely future scenarios from milestones of science fiction cinema actually are and what significance they already have today.

Ridley Scott's visually stunning science fiction epic "Blade Runner" is one of the great enigmas of film history. It is therefore puzzling that this undisputed masterpiece - voted one of the 100 most important films of all time by the venerable TIME MAGAZINE as recently as 2005 - came away empty-handed at the 1982 Oscars. Since then, however, the peculiar mixture of film noir, crime story, action film, dystopia and nostalgia has achieved a more than deserved cult status, not least because of its many points of reference to major contemporary questions: How far can state control go? Is there a need for a broader bioethical discourse in view of the rapid progress of AI and robotics? How trustworthy are memories in the face of technical manipulation? Is progress only available at the price of progressive environmental destruction? And, last but not least, what will the cities of the future look like?

We want to discuss all these questions and more with our experts and the audience after the screening.

With Wolfgang Kerler, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine for future issues "1E9" and Ulrich Köhler, Head of Strategy and Insight at the agency group "Avantgarde". Munich-based science and technology historian Dr. Marco Böhlandt will moderate the discussion.

Free admission.