FILM
In 2017, Chinese artist Chen Zhou produced an ambitious live-action/machinima film about teenagers living in Shanghai. To create Life Imitation, the artist scouted real locations that evoked the hyperreal look-and-feel of Grand Theft Auto V, in order to highlight the Baudrillardian aesthetics of the contemporary moment. Life Imitation is
ART GAME
Remediating Gus Van San’s eponymous movie Gerry (2002), Edwin Lo aka Auditory Scenes's Gerry (2016), a student of Ip Yuk Yiu, re-appropriates the original cinematic experience as a lonely journey in a virtual desert at night. Devoid of light, the work transforms the film narrative as purely
DOCUMENTARY
Dominic Gagnon's Going South (2018) - the second episode of his ongoing series of documentaries on post-internet reality - features several sequences from Grand Theft Auto V, although from the trailer below it would be hard to believe. Going South was presented at the Vision du reel 2018
CONCEPTUAL
On The Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time was created by Shane Flores, a student enrolled in the New Mexico Highlands University Media Arts and Technology Program. It is a machinima “reboot” of Guy Debord’s seminal 1959 Situationist film of the same name
COLLABORATION
A journey of discovery into how a Canadian craftsman (David Bull) and an American designer (Jed Henry) with a father and son generation gap team up to revive the ancient art of Japanese woodblock prints by juxtaposing traditional art with pop culture icons: video game heroes such as Super Mario