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Video Games and the NY Video Festival

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the gaming-in-the-name-of-art dept.

Incognitius writes "The NYT (free reg. req.) has an article on the New York Video Festival's presentation of video games as an outpost of abstraction, eccentricity and avant-gardism. Various artists have used video games to make elaborate dramatic movies. In 'My Trip to Liberty City,' for example, Jim Munroe turns 'Grand Theft Auto III' into a comic travel diary, in which he chooses the 'skin' of a Canadian tourist and blithely ignores the criminal inducements that are the whole point of the game. Cartridge hacking, 'Halo,' and other elements of the gaming world are also mentioned, illustrating the amazing range of video games today."

14 comments

  1. Re:Down with NYT! by stuph · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    well, when another newspaper delivers the high-quality, award-winning articles that the NYT does, and gives them away for free without registration, then we can talk about it...

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  2. No-reg link! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    No-reg link.

  3. GTA is a video game?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I thought it was a Michael Moore documentary of the pre-Giuliani Manhattan.

    1. Re:GTA is a video game?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Try not to think too often. You don't seem to be up to the task.

  4. Re:Don't support NYT, read it here! by malakai · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If you like the article why not support the NY Times? They aren't publicly funded, they do have expenses and someone has to pay the journalist.

    If everyone were to think like you, and withold support to companies that provide legitimate well liked services, capitalism would fail. You are essentially stealing any potential ad revenue the NYT would have received when parties interested in this article went over to read it.

    -malakai

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  5. What the.... by Munk · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...how can you mention game engine videos and leave out Red vs Blue and the Blood Gulch Chronicles.

    Don't get me wrong. Randy Glass is the godfather of Halo movies, but Red vs Blue took it to an entirely new level. Heck, those guys were even invited to go to the conference and made a special video for it. This is just blasphemous.

    1. Re:What the.... by zephc · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I was just going to mention them, I'm glad you did (as you seemed to have provided more info than I knew about)

      R v B is hilarious, a great serial comedy, and i look forward to its progress

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      "I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
  6. Not fun at all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Am I bored, or was Jim Munroe's GTA-movie really boring? Not worth the pain-in-the-ass slow download.

    1. Re:Not fun at all by Goat+In+The+Shell · · Score: 2, Informative

      Don't know if you're trolling or not AC, but I watched that Jim Munroe GTA film a while back and have to agree, it's really not interesting or "comic."

      It's basically just in-game footage lifted from the pc version of GTA3, with some bland voice-over. It's nowhere near as funny as some of the machinima and other stuff floating around.

      Strange, because his site, No Media Kings, actually looks like it's got some semi-interesting content; sort of a hodge-podge of modern consumer culture satire and other assorted "culture-jamming" (bleh) stuff.

      But yeah, skip that GTA thing.

  7. Re:Don't support NYT, read it here! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Waa waa waa! Shut up!

    Capitalism is going down boy.

  8. Piece on Machinima.com by TheNomad · · Score: 1

    Paul Marino of the Ill Clan also wrote a piece on this program, which you can find here.

    There's a little stuff on RvB there, as well as details on the Ill Clan's Machinima ballet (!) piece.