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Video Games and the NY Video Festival
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."
No-reg link.
...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.
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.