In September 2020, partway through a year already defined by ‘unprecedented’ and world-altering events, California awoke to deep orange smoke-filled skies which turned day to night. As wildfires raged across the state, California’s skyscapes resembled not the blue cloudless paradise we have come to know, but the apocalyptic orange glow of Blade Runner 2049, the long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s 80s classic. Suddenly, this desolate reality, set only 29 years in the future, doesn’t seem so farfetched.

California Dreamin’