[Frameworks] Experimental cinema and video games

Todd Eacrett hellbox at antimatter.ca
Mon Feb 8 22:51:10 UTC 2021


Ip Yuk-Yiu made several great pieces within environments from Call of Duty, etc: The Plastic Garden, Cloud Fall, Another Day of Depression in Kowloon. 

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021, at 1:41 PM, Albert Alcoz wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Do you know experimental films or videos that use images taken from video games?
> 
> I wanted to write something concerning the relationship between both areas but I don't know the point of view, yet. There are some films like *Oh, I Can't Stop!* (1976) by Zbig Rybczynski they seem to foresee the First-Person Shooter (FPS) of known videogames as *Doom*. That could be one point of departure, finding experimental films that could have influenced video games.
> 
> Another approach would be to try to write about those works that use video game images as found footage. In fact this link between these two fields admits dozens of different analyzes, I suppose and I'm just searching to know more about it. 
> 
> Anyway, could you mention films that come to mind on this subject? Some resources, articles or books, maybe?
> 
> Right now the list of titles I have is the following:
> *Films and videos:*
> *Super Mario Clouds*, Cory Arcangel
> *I Shot Andy Warhol*, Cory Arcangel**
> *She Puppet*, Peggy Ahwesh**
> *Still Remember, Still Dreaming,* Phil Solomon
> *Last Days in a Lonely Place*, Phil Solomon
> *No No Nooky T.V.* de Barbara Hammer
> *Windshield Baby Gameboy Movie*, Clint Enns
> *And We All Shine On*, Michael Robinson
> *The Game,* Tasman Richardson
> Chris Marker's *Second Life*
> *Estrecho Adventure, *Valeriano López
> *Cubica*, m.ash
> Harun Farocki
> Joan Leandre
> 
> *Resources:*
> Screening: Avant-Game program at the Melnitz Movies, Los Angeles Filmforum
> Exhibition: Games for Windows: Experiments with Game Footage
> Website: https://monoskop.org/Game_art
> Playlist: Game over (Xcèntric): http://xcentric.cccb.org/en/menus/fitxa/game-over-/233181
> 
> Any suggestion will be appreciated.
> Thank you very much,
> 
> Albert Alcoz
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