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In sad news, Blade Runner production designer Lawrence Paull passed away on 10 November aged 81. Along with Syd Mead, David Snyder and Ridley Scott, he was instrumental in creating the dystopian vision of Los Angeles in November 2019. A prescient world of incessant rain, neon and murderous replicants, it's one of my personal favourites. Nominated for an Academy Award
Spanish cinematography Enrique Pacheco has put together a beautiful montage of natural and man-made monuments, Made on Earth. Filmed over two years in far-flung locations including Iceland, Estonia, USA and Spain, it's breath-taking and is currently one of Vimeo's Staff Picks. What set me back was just one part of the film, which powerfully struck me as reminiscent of a
In "Blade Runner Revisited", François Vautier has produced an experimental homage to "Blade Runner", Ridley Scott's sci-fi noir classic. In creating the film, François ripped 167,819 frames from the "Final Cut" version and digitally pasted them together, making a single image roughly 60,000 pixels square. In digital camera terms, it's 3.6 gigapixels. Much of the film involves floating above this