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Machinima With A Political Voice

Posted by Zonk on from the say-something dept.

Moe Napoli writes "While machinima has long promised itself as a way to democratize animated filmmaking, it might finally be finding its way out of the steady stream of crass comedy and frag videos. Filmmakers with a desire to express their political views are using machinima as way of articulating their perspectives. One film that's gaining a lot of attention for its political message is The French Democracy, a machinima about the suburban riots in France, and made with Activision's recently released game/machinima app, The Movies. Additional commentary about the film is also on Clive Thompson's Collision Detection and Paul Marino's Thinking Machinima."

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  1. Re:I knew this would happen... by Seumas · · Score: 0, Troll

    I didn't know people who bought SIMS and The Movies games had a political voice. Or at least, one that reached beyond what soda is king.

  2. Re:I knew this would happen... by Seumas · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe it's just me, but I've never met anyone who "enjoyed" the sims line of games any differently than a junkie enjoys her crack. That is to say, there's no sim playing and then there's "disrupting my life" sim playing. I don't think I've seen anything in between.

    I happened across some documentary about SIMS players the other night on MTV or some channel like that. The people they profiled actually SCARED me.