Kinderfilm
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It's an ordinary day in the game Grand Theft Auto V: The streets are crowded with cars; people follow their routines, barbecue in their gardens or sunbath on the beach. And yet the game world is marked by a grave absence: a missing future that was suspended out of safety concerns.
Unable to name the void, protagonist Edgar follows the traces of what is missing in the algorithm of his reality. Exploring the uncanniness of his normality, he rediscovers a beautiful yet nightmarish world.
Unable to name the void, protagonist Edgar follows the traces of what is missing in the algorithm of his reality. Exploring the uncanniness of his normality, he rediscovers a beautiful yet nightmarish world.
Biography
The pseudo-marxist media guerilla Total Refusal explores and practices strategies for artistic intervention in contemporary video games. It works with tools of appropriation and rededication of game resources. Their films and performances were presented among others at Berlinale ‘20, Locarno 22 and at the MoMA in NYC and they have received more than 46 international and national awards and honorary mentions.
Details
Duration: 12'
Direction by: Total Refusal
Country: Austria
Language: English
Version: VOSC
Direction by: Total Refusal
Country: Austria
Language: English
Version: VOSC
Metodology
"Kinderfilm" was realized as a collective work. That is the general working practice of Total Refusal. We do split the work at some parts, as Adrian was mainly responsible for the composition and music. And yet, in the end, all directors have the same say in regard to all artistic and formal questions.