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It begins with the music—steady, pulsing, a rhythm that won’t settle. “Rachael’s Eyes” is a fragment shaped by that beat, by a gaze that slips between reflection and recognition… and colors. Why do Blade Runners need a test when the Replicants’ eyes already glow with the answer? Scott claimed the effect was non-diegetic, for the audience’s benefit. But Rachael’s green eyes? Fiction—Sean Young’s are dark. Deckard’s mirrored gaze? Maybe not a clue he’s a replicant, but that he’s in love. Homi Bhabha haunts the gaze. Hybridity flickers. My own eyes—dark, until the light says otherwise. I made this to trace that shimmer. Am I a replicant?

About the maker – Professor Barbara Zecchi

Film Studies Professor at the University of Massachusetts. Cat lady with dogs. Videoessayist trained at Middlebury College. Author of books on women filmmakers and gender and cinema. Co-editor of [in]Transition. Member of the Film Academy of Spain. From Venice.

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