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Game Art: Rich Oglesby's "Oldboy - Fight Scene (HD)" (2010)
"Classic scene from the film 'Oldboy' in ZX Spectrum graphics style." (Rich Oglesby) Link: Rich Oglesby Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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DOCUMENTARY
Event: Roger Stahl's "Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture" screening (Oct 21 2011, NYU, New York)
"This Friday, October 21st, join the Department of Photography and Imaging as they host the North American Screening of Returning Fire: Intervention in Video Game Culture. The film will be shown in Room 006 of 721 Broadway at 6PM, followed by a panel discussion with the director and artists;
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Doc: Adam Cornelius' "Ecstasy of Order. The Tetris Masters" (San Francisco, Doc Fest, Oct 23-25 2011)
"This latest addition to the gamer-doc genre tracks down the top world-record-holding Tetris players as they prepare to compete in the 2010 Classic Tetris World Championship. Witness the Masters as they reveal their secrets, recount their decades-long obsession with the game, and enter the transcendental state required to reach
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Game Art: Jon Rafman's "Code of Honor" (2011)
Link: Jon Rafman Link: A conversation on Rhizome Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Documentary: Dave Danzara's "Video Craze" extended preview
Ah, vector graphics... Can't wait to watch the entire doc. Link: Dave Danzara Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Event: Killscreen Video Game Film Festival (New York, 07/30, 08:00 PM - 05:43 PM)
Killscreen Video Game Film Festival @ THE OLD AMERICAN CAN FACTORY On the roof of The Old American Can Factory GOWANUS/SLOPE 232 Third St. at 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215 F/G to Carroll St. or M/R to Union "Rooftop Films and Kill Screen present a night of
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Game Art: John Bruneau's "Not a Hero (in the traditional sense)" (2007)
"Dave embodies the fantasy of the banal. He lives in a world of paperwork and office politics not demon slaying and magic. Dave is the fantasy character's fantasy. He doesn't have to worry about warring factions or situations of life and death. Like many Americans,
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Game Art: Frederik Hilmer Svanholm, Kasper Rasmussen, Thea Collett and Vibeke Bertelsen aka Obscura's "Another place" (2011)
"This art installation was exhibited in Brorsons Kirke in Copenhagen April 2011. It is a 3-way projection warp (using a Unity3d game engine) on a 120 cm sphere. The title is 'Another Place' and it shows a strange planet with shy lifeforms that tries to get away,
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Game Art: Gregory Chatonsky's "Desert III" (2011)
DESERT III (2011), Vidéo HD, 00:16:20, Production: Arte "Des espaces inhabités, villes et marécages, forêts et routes, des objets et des mots qui disparaissent les uns après les autres, une jeune femme qui se livre et pleure sur Youtube. Inspiré de "La route" de Cormac
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Documentary: Roger Stahl's "Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture" (2011)
Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture (2011) "Video games like Modern Warfare, America's Army, Medal of Honor, andBattlefield are part of an exploding market of war games whose revenues now far outpace even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The sophistication of these games is undeniable, offering users
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EVENT: SF Indiefest (San Francisco, February 3-17)
The 2011 edition of SF Indiefest, a cinematic retrospective that celebrates the best independent productions from all over the world, features a series of fabulous docs and movies that readers of GameScenes cannot miss. Among the others: [All films are at the Roxie Cinema] Second Bodies, Sandra Danilovic, 2010, 46
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Game Art: Thomas Kutschker's "Shooting Locations" (2009)
Thomas Kutschker, Shooting Locations, HDCAM; 8:00 min; color, mono, 2010 "Shooting Locations is researching the borderlines between war, playing war, war games and the disappearance of the separation between reality and fiction." (Thomas Kutschker) link: Thomas Kutschker Also highly recommended: Me, Myself and I in the age