C5 Presents: Blade Runner | The Dystopian Skyline

Towering cityscapes. Flickering neon. Futures shaped by power, technology, and inequality. The Dystopian Skyline explores how filmmakers have imagined urban futures where progress comes at a cost, and humanity is forced to reckon with the worlds it builds.
We’ll begin with a striking clip from Metropolis (1927), Fritz Lang’s silent-era masterpiece that introduced cinema to the towering, mechanized city as a symbol of social division and industrial excess. That vision echoes forward into Blade Runner (1982), Ridley Scott’s genre-defining neo-noir sci-fi epic, where rain-soaked streets and glowing skylines frame haunting questions about identity, memory, and what it truly means to be human.
It’s sure to be a a visually apealing and thought-provoking night that traces the evolution of dystopian worlds, from silent cinema to cyberpunk, and examines why these dark futures continue to reflect our deepest hopes and fears about the present.
Doors open at 7, show starts at 7:30pm.
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