It’s tough to blow people away with fresh and innovative science fiction; unfortunately, the genre is jam packed with tropes and cliches that are predictable and tiring. But in 2017, Denis Villeneuve built upon the bleak dystopian world of Ridley Scott’s neo-noir masterpiece, Blade Runner, and subverted our expectations, challenged the cliches, and stretched the imagination of the science fiction genre, by asking not merely what it means to be human, but rather, what it means to be beyond human. Join The Tilt Shift as we unpack the art and science of Blade Runner 2049.