FILM
The theme of the 2020 MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL is The Weird, the Eerie, and the Unreal. Inspired by Mark Fisher’s last book, The Weird and the Eerie (2017), the theme tries to capture the essence of machinima, like the previous two, Aesthetics of game-based cinema (2018) and Uncanny (2019)
3D ANIMATION
Heads up! A MAZE. just launched a call for submission which may be of interest to you all:Ok. First of all, you probably already know that A MAZE. 9th International Games and Playful Media Festival takes place in Berlin from April 22-25, 2020, in Berlin, Germany.Now, the organizers
GAME ART
Total Refusal (Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf), Featherfall, 2019 4 channel video installation (loop) + audio, loudspeaker Several scholars have compared the logic of video games to dreams (rather than movies or novels) to explain their peculiar nature: Alfie Bown comes to mind (see The PlayStation Dreamworld). Total Refusal explored
GAME ART
Eddie Lohmeyer, Scrolling Landscape in 34 NES Games, digital video/machinima, color, 1' 58", 2019 Eddie Lohmeyer's Scrolling Landscape in 34 NES Games (2019) is an experimental glitch video exploring the relationship among nostalgia and our perception of technologically mediated landscapes, created by "appropriating footage