Landscape Film, 2006, video, color, sound, total running time two minutes and 25 seconds
After initial screenings of Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner, Warner Brothers studios felt that the movie needed a happy conclusion, so the finale was re-cut and utilized second unit out-takes from Stanley Kubrick's opening montage in The Shining. In Landscape Film, Kubrick's opening montage is coupled with the alternate “happy ending” for Blade Runner, reuniting footage separated for many years and compressing the two films’ narratives into one. The reunited footage is presented as a projected film loop. Image caption left to right: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, 1980; Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, 1982.
