More than a movie night, enjoy a pre and post film discussion with New Bedford’s favorite film professor, Dr. Mocha J. Herrup.

Mocha is a senior lecturer in the Communications, Journalism, and Media Department at Suffolk University. Mocha is also an award winning filmmaker and an experienced film festival programmer. They hold a PhD in Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas at Austin.
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
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]