Performance

Alien

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Screened at MoMA, Ridley Scott’s *Alien* (1979) stages a working-class space crew’s encounter with an organism that turns their commercial mission into a closed-room ordeal. The film’s horror is practical and procedural, built from labor routines, corporate indifference, and the slow collapse of trust. In New York, it has long circulated through repertory programs and museum contexts that treat science fiction as design, sound, and social allegory as much as genre. Its lasting significance is how it makes the future feel like an industrial workplace, not a frontier.