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Total Refusal: The Gaming Environment As an Artistic Medium
Austrian art-cinema collective Total Refusal (Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf) uses the virtual space of computer games to create original audiovisual essays. Operation Jane Walk, for instance, takes us on a guided tour of the streets of New York from the dystopian shooter-em-up Tom Clancy’s The Division, while How to Disappear tests the chances for desertion in the game Battlefield. Simple questions are explored to the extreme, absurd situations are staged in order to push the limits of the rules of the game, or bizarre photorealistic copies of real places form the starting point for an essay-like reflection on various themes that relate to much more than video games and their players.
Since 2018, Total Refusal’s short films have won a number of awards and have been screened at dozens of festivals around the world. The group’s most recent film, How to Disappear, premiered at the Berlinale in 2020.
Two of the collective’s three filmmakers (Robin Klengel and Leonhard Müllner) will discuss their approach to the gaming environment as a cinematic medium, the specific nature of their narrative techniques, and the possibilities offered by working within a creative collective.
The event will be in English.
Total Refusal: The Gaming Environment As an Artistic Medium
Austrian art-cinema collective Total Refusal (Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf) uses the virtual space of computer games to create original audiovisual essays. Operation Jane Walk, for instance, takes us on a guided tour of the streets of New York from the dystopian shooter-em-up Tom Clancy’s The Division, while How to Disappear tests the chances for desertion in the game Battlefield. Simple questions are explored to the extreme, absurd situations are staged in order to push the limits of the rules of the game, or bizarre photorealistic copies of real places form the starting point for an essay-like reflection on various themes that relate to much more than video games and their players.
Since 2018, Total Refusal’s short films have won a number of awards and have been screened at dozens of festivals around the world. The group’s most recent film, How to Disappear, premiered at the Berlinale in 2020.
Two of the collective’s three filmmakers (Robin Klengel and Leonhard Müllner) will discuss their approach to the gaming environment as a cinematic medium, the specific nature of their narrative techniques, and the possibilities offered by working within a creative collective.
The event will be in English.