A split-screen image with a close-up of David Bowie's old character in The Hunger on top, and 'Blade Hunger' written in the fonts from the films The Hunger and Blade Runner' underneath.

Blade Hunger (video essay exercise)

Date:June 30, 2024
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Category:Projects, Video, Video Essays
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Made at Middlebury video essay camp (Scholarship in Sound and Image Workshop on Videographic Criticism) June 2024

For this Multi-screen exercise, I used The Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983) and Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982). With an accidental focus on the similarities between the stylistic approaches to these films and a hypothesis that the Scott brothers must have a bird wrangler, I wanted to compare how gender is differently mobilized in the death scenes for some of the main characters.