Expanding on LA’s prophetic and dystopic alter ego as exemplified by Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner (the director’s cut was released months after the LA Riots), 2019 is a one minute web-based video that compiles an assortment of quotes taken from presidential speeches and the media. By decontextualizing the quotes from their sources and placing them in a formal replication of the film’s introduction, the project attempts to situate “calming” as a symbolic method to control the masses, while playing with the idea of crisis as a turning point— an event with the potential to destabilize subjectivity.